Laurel Felt, Phd Email & Phone Number

Dakar Region, Senegal

I lead the OASIS Center, a research-and-action hub headquartered in Africa. Our mission is to empower partners in Africa and beyond with the world’s best talent and most promising approaches for unlocking the power of socially impactful storytelling. Our research solutions and liaison services include: one-of-a-kind datasets; innovative methods and.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Design learning solutions, conduct mixed methods research, and translate findings. Notably, I was the learning designer for the Barbie Dream Gap Curriculum, an interactive, multimedia experience developed for children ages 5 to 7, intended to help close the Dream Gap by inspiring their limitless potential to learn, work, and lead. It leveraged the latest.

With Laurel Felt Consulting, I use insights from child development and educational research to help organizations serving children, youth, and/or families (e.g., media producers, toy companies, curriculum developers) enrich their content, products, instruction, and business practices so they can help children to learn and grow as well as remain competitive.

Los Angeles, CA

• Taught business communication-related theory and skills to help prepare undergraduate and graduate students for bright, dynamic futures.Significant courses included: Youth & Media; Public Speaking; Business and.
• Earned recognition as one of the highest-rated educators in department (92% student-rated effectiveness score over 41 classes, highly favorable 2018 - 2019 faculty merit review) by consistently delivering excellence.
• Designed win-win course partnerships with DirecTV, FullScreen, and KCRW, which boosted student engagement, facilitated development of “real world” skills, connections, and expertise, and delighted partners.
• Introduced cutting-edge business software, including Adobe Creative Cloud, Tubular Intelligence, Qualtrics, and Slack, enriching students’ capacity to understand trends, communicate effectively, and add value to.
• Developed innovative service-learning programs in public speaking and media literacy, resulting in undergraduates’ deeper mastery of material, development of life and career skills, and awareness of civic issues, and.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Conducted qualitative research on diverse content, audiences, and impacts in order to empower social change efforts driven by diverse partners (e.g., Hollywood studios, international non-profits, U.S. government).Key projects included: lead author on media landscape analysis investigating whether and how to craft safe abortion storylines for sub-Saharan.

El Segundo, CA

• As a member of the Child Development and Learning team, designed world-class curriculum, co-created a child development and learning framework for ages 0 to 12, and activated expertise across Mattel to enrich learning.
• Led development of curriculum solutions that leveraged IP and tackled diverse objectives, from social-emotional learning to design thinking, resulting in on-time delivery of high-quality, innovative lessons for kids.
• Designed, executed, and analyzed pilot testing of curriculum across domestic and international sites, identifying insights and suggesting iterations that resolved user experience issues and optimized learning.
• Managed external vendor's development of research-based resources, positioning Mattel to act as thought leader.

Los Angeles, CA

• Led non-profit dedicated to supporting journalism education and student media for at-risk youth.
• Created, managed, and assessed 5 outreach programs, delivering value to stakeholders and finding learning gains.
• Enabled service to hundreds of youth by acting as effective fiscal manager, facilitating $100K in donations, winning competitive grants, introducing fee-for-service funding stream, and launching internship program.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Pursued engaged research around 21st-century learning, focusing on youth, media, and social-emotional learning.
• Led inquiry-based processes, employed creative design thinking, and leveraged tools / technology to design 3 out-of-school programs and study 5 programs with USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, resulting in meaningful.
• Developed innovative, critical thinking-oriented curricula for online learners with USC Shoah Foundation and USC Joint Educational Project, impacting participants’ knowledge, empathy, and intention to engage in.
• Studied advanced multivariate methods (regression) and ethnographic methods, establishing a well rounded quant / qual skill set.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

I edited and wrote ancillary educational print products for elementary education contexts, completing robust curriculum solutions designed by such industry leaders as Houghton Mifflin and Pearson.* Ensured alignment with product guidelines, project norms, industry best practices, and state-wide learning standards.* Applied expertise in child development.

Medford, MA

I facilitated emergent curriculum and supported cognitive, physical, and social-emotional development for ethnically and socio-economically diverse young children (aged 0-5).

Phd, Communication

Ma, Child Study & Human Development

Bs, Social Policy

Activities and Societies: Titanic Players, Daily Northwestern, Shepard Residential College, Delta Zeta Sorority

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