Please contact us if you have any questions or comments:
- Taryn M. Tyler, Research Coordinator, Leadership Programs
- Stefani Wilcox, Program Assistant, Leadership Programs
Institute for Educational Leadership
4455 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 310
Washington, DC 20008
phone: (202) 822-8405
fax: (202) 872-4050
e-mail: iel@iel.org
Taryn M. Tyler
Research Coordinator, Leadership
Programs
e-mail: tylert@iel.org
phone:
202-822-8405 x 155
Taryn joined the IEL staff in December of 2004. As Research Coordinator for Leadership Programs, she manages and conducts research for the Lumina Foundation in Education’s evaluation of the Education Policy Fellowship Program. Her other responsibilities include developing and implementing a broad array of activities to support the national and local EPFP sites. She also provides periodic research and analytic support for other projects of IEL including the ASCD Commission on the Whole Child and the Washington Center’s Workshops in Disability Public Policy.
Prior to joining IEL, Taryn was the Director of Programs at the National Association of Urban Debate Leagues (NAUDL) in Chicago, Illinois. Her responsibilities at NAUDL included providing professional development and technical assistance to school leaders and secondary school teachers. Previously, Taryn researched various educational issues with the Program in Afterschool Education and Research (PAER), and the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. She also coordinated and taught a policy debate program at a juvenile detention center in Rhode Island.
Taryn holds a Masters degree in education with a concentration in administration, policy, and social planning from Harvard University, and an AB in public policy with a concentration in education policy from Brown University. Taryn is a recipient of the Brown University’s Taubman Center Award for Public Service and a member of the 2006-2007 DC EPFP class.
Stefani Wilcox
Program Assistant, Leadership Programs
e-mail: wilcoxs@iel.org
phone: 202-822-8405 x135
Stefani is the Program Assistant for Leadership Programs at IEL. She works on the Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP), the Lumina Project and the SPARK/DC Leadership Learning Circle. Her duties include providing administrative, logistical, and programmatic support for meetings, research, and the EPFP Web site.
Stefani’s prior work experiences include serving: as the Co-Director of Students for Equity and Diversity for the Multicultural Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin; as a Teacher with Breakthrough Austin; as the Grants and Contracts Writing Assistant for the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin; and as an Orientation Advisor in the New Student Services Office of the University of Texas at Austin.
Stefani has a B.A. in Government from the University of Texas, Austin.