STEAM Education Initiative Advisors
Julea Douglass, Ph.D.
Julea is the executive director of School-Connect, co-author of School-Connect, lead author of Character Education Evaluation Toolkit, and has been a consultant to several school-based intervention programs and research projects. She served as research associate and program coordinator at the Character Education Partnership (CEP) in Washington, D.C., and assistant to a senior advisor to the Secretary of Education at the U.S. Department of Education.
Harvard University M.Ed.
University of Virginia Ph.D.
John Ha, Ph.D.
John is the founder and CEO of Bear Robotics, a leader in AI-driven, autonomous robotics development for the service industry. Former Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead at Google and Adjunct Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
University of Texas Ph.D.
Seoul National University B.S.
H. Tad Blair, Ph.D.
Tad is a Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience in the UCLA Psychology Department. His research investigates the neural basis of memory and behavior, with special emphasis on brain mechanisms underlying spatial navigation. He is also an experienced computer programmer (with a master’s degree in computer science), and collaborates with engineers and computer scientists to develop new technologies for recording and manipulating neural activity in the brain.
Yale University Ph.D.
Northwestern University M.S.
University of Texas, Austin B.S.