Team
BRIDGES Team Members
Phil Capin
phil_capin@gse.harvard.eduAssistant Professor of Education
Director of BRIDGES Lab
Dr. Phil Capin is the Director of the BRIDGES Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on understanding differences in reading development and developing and evaluating the efficacy of instructional practices, primarily for...
Yijing Chen
Research Assistant
Yijing Chen gained her master’s degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research broadly focuses on language and literacy development, with a specific interest in evidence-based interventions for K–5 students with language and literacy...
Paulina Kulesz
Affiliated Researcher
As a Research Associate Professor at the University of Houston, Dr. Paulina Kulesz specializes in the intersection of statistics and data science. With a background in neuroscience and educational psychology, Dr. Kulesz applies advanced statistical...
Laura Mesite
laura_mesite@gse.harvard.eduResearch Scientist
Laura Mesite is an educational researcher and special educator with over ten years of experience conducting research related to language and literacy development. Laura earned Bachelor's of Arts degrees in Cognitive Science and Music from the University...
Madelaine Panici
Research Coordinator
Madelaine Panici is a master's student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she studies Education Policy and Analysis. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from McGill University, with minors in Behavioral Science and Education, where...
Justin Shaw
Research Assistant
Justin Shaw is a graduate student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he studies educational leadership and school improvement. He brings eight years of experience as a public high school English teacher, having taught AP Language and...
Sining Tao
PhD Student
Sining Tao is a PhD student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she studies multilingual learners’ language and literacy development across diverse educational settings. She is particularly interested in practice-embedded research that (1)...
Arden Woodall
Research Assistant
Arden Woodall is a master’s student in the Human Development & Education program with a concentration in Literacy & Languages at HGSE. She holds her bachelor’s in English Education, Spanish, and Creative Writing from Purdue University, where her...
Tianjiao Zhang
Research Assistant
Tianjiao Zhang recently earned her Master’s degree in Education Policy and Analysis from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She holds a B.A. in Media Studies and Education from the University of California, Berkeley, where she explored how digital...
