Jerri Dasha Stockton Email & Phone Number

DaSha is a Senior Research and Evaluation Specialist with over a decade of experience working in educational and cognitive psychology related fields. More recently, her work has focused on projects addressing systemic inequities that promote disparities in education and a lack of access to quality health care. She develops measurement tools and employs various evaluative methods that focus on assessing the embodiment of and changes in attitudes, thoughts and beliefs around health equity and systemic racism. Many of these constructs are created through the integration of education and cognitive psychology theories with developmental evaluation principles (e.g. using visual cueing to make surveys more accessible while considering differences in reading comprehension). Afterall, everyone’s voice should be heard! She also dabbles in evaluating community-based, participatory-oriented education and empowerment programs. Ms. Stockton has extensive experience in designing, executing, analyzing, and disseminating data in meaningful and thoughtful ways. Prior to joining MPHI, Ms. Stockton served as a Project Coordinator and Researcher / Statistician for the Cognitive Development Lab in the College of Education at Michigan State University. She worked on a series of projects that sought to uncover how children (preschool through middle school) learn and apply mathematical concepts. Specifically, acquisition of place value concepts through the use of Base-10 manipulatives, spatial manipulation and recognition, as well as incorporating standardized assessments with self-generated tools. She created and disseminated findings to research and non-research-oriented audiences (i.e., peer-reviewed journals, superintendents, teachers, parents / care takers, and the students she worked with). She continues to act as a consultant on similar projects and others that investigate how children learn how to read. Collectively her current and past experiences have led to her being well-versed in complex statistical analyses that include multivariate statistics, classification methodologies, pattern recognition, and HLM and computational modeling, to name the favorites. She enjoys learning from others, alone time, photography, painting and spending time with her daughter Emma and Emma’s cat, Arya.

Listed skills include Data Analysis, Statistics, Research, Quantitative Research, and 21 others.