Star Plaxton-Moore Ed.D Email & Phone Number

Star Plaxton-Moore is a Associate Director of Community Engaged Learning and Research at the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University. In this role, Star works with the dynamic and highly-skilled CELR team to envision, implement, and assess some of the Haas Center’s signature programs and key strategic initiatives, including integrating public service and community engagement into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, supporting faculty development for community-engaged teaching and research, and strengthening the center’s place-based initiatives in education and sustainability. Star joined the Haas Center after 19 years at the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at University of San Francisco where she was Director of Community-Engaged Learning. Star directed institutional support for community-engaged courses and oversaw public service programs for undergraduates, including the Public Service and Community Engagement Minor. She also designed and implemented an annual Community-Engaged Learning and Teaching Fellowship, a Community Partner Co-Educator Fellowship, and other professional development offerings that brought together faculty and community partners as co-learners. Star’s scholarship focuses on faculty development for community-engaged teaching and scholarship, student preparation for community engagement, intersections of feminism and community engagement, assessment of civic learning outcomes, and community engagement in institutional culture and practice. She has co-authored two books, The Student Companion to Community-Engaged Learning and The Craft of Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning as well as multiple book chapters, articles, and book reviews. Star has served on the board of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) since 2019, and is the co-chair of the board’s Special Programming Committee. Additionally, Star is a second term trustee at the Katherine Delmar Burke School for Girls. She also consults with colleges and universities across the country on community-engaged faculty development, and with Bay Area independent K-8 schools on service-learning curriculum, principles, and practices.Prior to working in higher education, Star worked as an elementary school teacher in Virginia and California. She holds an Ed.D. in organizational leadership from University of San Francisco and an M.Ed. and B.A. from George Washington University.