Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs<\/strong><\/h3>\n![\"Dorothea](\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\")
Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, Neag School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nDorothea Anagnostopoulos<\/a>, associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been named the Neag School\u2019s associate dean for academic affairs.<\/p>\nIn this role, Anagnostopoulos will oversee and maintain high-quality academic programs across the Neag School while developing and leading the implementation of inclusive, equity-oriented community building, networking, and professional development programming for faculty. She also will be directing School-wide accreditation efforts and monitoring course enrollments.<\/p>\n
Anagnostopoulos previously served as the Neag School\u2019s executive director of teacher education from 2013 to 2019. She also is the vice president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)\u2019s Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education. A leading scholar on school reform, Anagnostopoulos holds a doctorate in education from the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n
Morgaen Donaldson, Associate Dean for Research and Philip E. Austin Endowed Chair<\/strong><\/h3>\nProfessor Morgaen Donaldson<\/a>, director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation<\/a> (CEPARE) and the Neag School\u2019s Ed.D. program, has been appointed the Neag School\u2019s associate dean for research.<\/p>\nMorgaen Donaldson, Neag School Associate Dean for Research and Philip E. Austin Endowed Chair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAs associate dean for research, she will work collaboratively with faculty and staff across the Neag School to develop and enact a plan to support research and the securing of grants, and will be responsible for developing initiatives to enhance the research climate and provide opportunities in the Neag School for faculty, staff, and students to expand their research skills, funding sources, and productivity. Donaldson also will serve as a resource and facilitator for Neag School faculty and staff who are considering writing grants, have operational questions concerning funded grants, or are encountering problems or difficulties with grant-related activities.<\/p>\n
In addition, Donaldson has been named the Philip E. Austin Endowed Chair<\/a>.<\/p>\nHer areas of expertise include educational leadership, teacher quality, educational policy, and education reform. Her research has centered on educator development, including educator performance evaluation, teaching and leadership quality, and school reform, with her work on teacher evaluation practices in particular having gained state and national attention. Her work is also closely connected to the work of policymakers affiliated with the Connecticut State Department of Education, superintendents, principals, and teachers within the state\u2019s public schools.<\/p>\n
Donaldson\u2019s three-year appointment as the Austin Chair was approved by the UConn Board of Trustees this past spring. She completed her Ed.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.<\/p>\n
Ann Traynor, Assistant Dean and Certification Officer<\/strong><\/h3>\nAnn Traynor, Neag School Assistant Dean and Certification Officer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAlso in the Dean\u2019s Office, Ann Traynor<\/a> has been appointed assistant dean and certification officer. She\u00a0directs advising, educator certification, recruitment, retention, and career preparation at the Neag School of Education.\u00a0Traynor is also a member of the University\u2019s Advising Council and\u00a0serves on the Neag School\u2019s Assessment,\u00a0Curricula and Courses, and Global\u00a0Education Committees, as well as co-chair, Standard 3, for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) Accreditation Self-Study.<\/p>\nIn 2011, the UConn Undergraduate Student Government recognized her with its Advisor of the Year Award. She holds an Ed.D. in educational leadership from the\u00a0University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n
Traynor had been serving as interim assistant dean since this past spring<\/a>.<\/p>\nDepartment of Educational Leadership<\/strong><\/h2>\nChen Chen, Assistant Professor<\/strong><\/h3>\nAssistant Professor Chen Chen (Photo courtesy of Chen Chen).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Department of Educational Leadership also welcomes Chen Chen<\/a> as an assistant professor of sport management, who arrives from the University of Alberta in Canada. Chen, whose research interests include critical sport management, settler colonialism and decolonization, and social, racial, and environmental justice, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2019 and completed a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded postdoctoral fellowship titled \u201cReimagining Sport from the Margins\u201d at the same institution in 2021.<\/p>\n\u201cI ground my teaching and research with an ethics of relational accountability, which emphasizes the consideration of\u00a0historical, collective responsibility towards human and non-human communities of not only current but also future generations on this planet,\u201d Chen says. \u201cI am humbled to visit the land\u00a0we know today as Connecticut (originated from the Algonquin word\u00a0Quinnehtukqut<\/em>\u00a0that means \u2018beside the long tidal river\u2019) and I look forward to upholding my responsibility as a guest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cI am humbled to visit the land\u00a0we know today as Connecticut …\u00a0and I look forward to upholding my responsibility as a guest.\u201d
\n\u2014 Chen Chen, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\nAlexandra Freidus, Assistant Professor<\/strong><\/h3>\nAssistant Professor Alexandra Freidus. (Credit: Clay Williams. \u00a9 Clay Williams \/ claywilliamsphoto.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAlexandra Freidus<\/a> joins the Department of Educational Leadership from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Her research interests include school integration, youth organizing, and diverse classrooms.<\/p>\n\u201cMy scholarship asks what roles educators, policymakers, families, and young people play in sustaining and interrupting racialized patterns in K-12 schools,\u201d Freidus says. \u201cI use lenses from Critical Race Theory, cultural sociology, and the anthropology of education to unravel these relationships, examining how community stakeholders conceptualize student diversity, how school and district administrators enact educational policy, and how these local contexts relate to schools\u2019 central work \u2013 teaching and learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\nFreidus earned her Ph.D. in urban education in 2018 from New York University. She served previously for five years as a high school teacher in California, and also led professional development in urban schools in both California and New York.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMy scholarship asks what roles educators, policymakers, families, and young people play in sustaining and interrupting racialized patterns in K-12 schools.\u201d
\n\u2014 Alexandra Freidus, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
NaRi Shin, Assistant Professor<\/h3>\n<\/figure>\nAssistant Professor NaRi Shin. (Photo courtesy of NaRi Shin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAssistant Professor NaRi Shin<\/a> also joins the Neag School\u2019s sport management program. She previously served at Texas Tech University, and her research interests include sport and development in relation to globalization and diaspora.<\/a>\u201cThe aim of my research,\u201d Shin says, \u201cis to enhance our critical understandings of how globalization, diaspora, and cultural interactions between and across continents changes the ways in which we manage sport and development, and impacts both development of sport and development through sport.\u201d<\/p>\nShin completed her doctorate in recreation, sport, and tourism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019.<\/p>\n
Department of Educational Psychology<\/strong><\/h2>\nKylie Anglin, Assistant Professor<\/strong><\/h3>\nAssistant Professor Kylie Anglin. (Photo courtesy of Kylie Anglin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nArriving at the Department of Educational Psychology this fall is Kylie Anglin<\/a>, who will serve as faculty in the Neag School\u2019s Research Methods, Measurement, and Evaluation (RMME) program. Her research focuses on developing methods for efficiently monitoring program implementation using data science techniques.<\/p>\n\u201cMy goal as an educator is to teach students to think critically about modeling assumptions in real-life applications and to conduct high-quality reproducible research,\u201d says Anglin, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia earlier this year. \u201cI do this by having students work with real-world data and having them adopt the practices of professional software and research teams.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMy goal as an educator is to teach students to think critically about modeling assumptions in real-life applications and to conduct high-quality reproducible research.\u201d
\n\u2014 Kylie Anglin, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Sara Renzulli, Assistant Professor-in-Residence<\/strong><\/h3>\nAssistant Professor-in-Residence Sara Renzulli. (Photo courtesy of Sara Renzulli)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSara Renzulli \u201911 MA, \u201913 Ph.D.<\/a>, who has served for two years as an associate visiting professor<\/a> in the Neag School, has been named assistant professor-in-residence in the Department of Educational Psychology\u2019s counselor education and counseling psychology program. Her work will include creating and managing online courses and programs; teaching courses in counselor education and counseling psychology; advising graduate students; and supporting the CACREP accreditation process.<\/p>\nShe also had previously served in numerous roles at the University of Connecticut, including as an academic advisor, adjunct faculty member, academic counselor, and university specialist at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This fall, the Neag School welcomes its incoming hires, congratulates existing faculty members on new appointments, and celebrates the first full academic year with its dean, Jason G. Irizarry, and his newly appointed leadership team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":163828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1855],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1878],"class_list":["post-176818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neag"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 11:33:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176818"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198976,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176818\/revisions\/198976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/163828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176818"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=176818"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=176818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Dorothea Anagnostopoulos<\/a>, associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been named the Neag School\u2019s associate dean for academic affairs.<\/p>\n In this role, Anagnostopoulos will oversee and maintain high-quality academic programs across the Neag School while developing and leading the implementation of inclusive, equity-oriented community building, networking, and professional development programming for faculty. She also will be directing School-wide accreditation efforts and monitoring course enrollments.<\/p>\n Anagnostopoulos previously served as the Neag School\u2019s executive director of teacher education from 2013 to 2019. She also is the vice president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA)\u2019s Division K, Teaching and Teacher Education. A leading scholar on school reform, Anagnostopoulos holds a doctorate in education from the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n Professor Morgaen Donaldson<\/a>, director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation<\/a> (CEPARE) and the Neag School\u2019s Ed.D. program, has been appointed the Neag School\u2019s associate dean for research.<\/p>\n As associate dean for research, she will work collaboratively with faculty and staff across the Neag School to develop and enact a plan to support research and the securing of grants, and will be responsible for developing initiatives to enhance the research climate and provide opportunities in the Neag School for faculty, staff, and students to expand their research skills, funding sources, and productivity. Donaldson also will serve as a resource and facilitator for Neag School faculty and staff who are considering writing grants, have operational questions concerning funded grants, or are encountering problems or difficulties with grant-related activities.<\/p>\n In addition, Donaldson has been named the Philip E. Austin Endowed Chair<\/a>.<\/p>\n Her areas of expertise include educational leadership, teacher quality, educational policy, and education reform. Her research has centered on educator development, including educator performance evaluation, teaching and leadership quality, and school reform, with her work on teacher evaluation practices in particular having gained state and national attention. Her work is also closely connected to the work of policymakers affiliated with the Connecticut State Department of Education, superintendents, principals, and teachers within the state\u2019s public schools.<\/p>\n Donaldson\u2019s three-year appointment as the Austin Chair was approved by the UConn Board of Trustees this past spring. She completed her Ed.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.<\/p>\n Also in the Dean\u2019s Office, Ann Traynor<\/a> has been appointed assistant dean and certification officer. She\u00a0directs advising, educator certification, recruitment, retention, and career preparation at the Neag School of Education.\u00a0Traynor is also a member of the University\u2019s Advising Council and\u00a0serves on the Neag School\u2019s Assessment,\u00a0Curricula and Courses, and Global\u00a0Education Committees, as well as co-chair, Standard 3, for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) Accreditation Self-Study.<\/p>\n In 2011, the UConn Undergraduate Student Government recognized her with its Advisor of the Year Award. She holds an Ed.D. in educational leadership from the\u00a0University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n Traynor had been serving as interim assistant dean since this past spring<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Department of Educational Leadership also welcomes Chen Chen<\/a> as an assistant professor of sport management, who arrives from the University of Alberta in Canada. Chen, whose research interests include critical sport management, settler colonialism and decolonization, and social, racial, and environmental justice, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2019 and completed a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded postdoctoral fellowship titled \u201cReimagining Sport from the Margins\u201d at the same institution in 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cI ground my teaching and research with an ethics of relational accountability, which emphasizes the consideration of\u00a0historical, collective responsibility towards human and non-human communities of not only current but also future generations on this planet,\u201d Chen says. \u201cI am humbled to visit the land\u00a0we know today as Connecticut (originated from the Algonquin word\u00a0Quinnehtukqut<\/em>\u00a0that means \u2018beside the long tidal river\u2019) and I look forward to upholding my responsibility as a guest.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am humbled to visit the land\u00a0we know today as Connecticut …\u00a0and I look forward to upholding my responsibility as a guest.\u201d Alexandra Freidus<\/a> joins the Department of Educational Leadership from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Her research interests include school integration, youth organizing, and diverse classrooms.<\/p>\n \u201cMy scholarship asks what roles educators, policymakers, families, and young people play in sustaining and interrupting racialized patterns in K-12 schools,\u201d Freidus says. \u201cI use lenses from Critical Race Theory, cultural sociology, and the anthropology of education to unravel these relationships, examining how community stakeholders conceptualize student diversity, how school and district administrators enact educational policy, and how these local contexts relate to schools\u2019 central work \u2013 teaching and learning.\u201d<\/p>\n Freidus earned her Ph.D. in urban education in 2018 from New York University. She served previously for five years as a high school teacher in California, and also led professional development in urban schools in both California and New York.<\/p>\n \u201cMy scholarship asks what roles educators, policymakers, families, and young people play in sustaining and interrupting racialized patterns in K-12 schools.\u201d Assistant Professor NaRi Shin<\/a> also joins the Neag School\u2019s sport management program. She previously served at Texas Tech University, and her research interests include sport and development in relation to globalization and diaspora.<\/a>\u201cThe aim of my research,\u201d Shin says, \u201cis to enhance our critical understandings of how globalization, diaspora, and cultural interactions between and across continents changes the ways in which we manage sport and development, and impacts both development of sport and development through sport.\u201d<\/p>\n Shin completed her doctorate in recreation, sport, and tourism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019.<\/p>\n Arriving at the Department of Educational Psychology this fall is Kylie Anglin<\/a>, who will serve as faculty in the Neag School\u2019s Research Methods, Measurement, and Evaluation (RMME) program. Her research focuses on developing methods for efficiently monitoring program implementation using data science techniques.<\/p>\n \u201cMy goal as an educator is to teach students to think critically about modeling assumptions in real-life applications and to conduct high-quality reproducible research,\u201d says Anglin, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia earlier this year. \u201cI do this by having students work with real-world data and having them adopt the practices of professional software and research teams.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy goal as an educator is to teach students to think critically about modeling assumptions in real-life applications and to conduct high-quality reproducible research.\u201d Sara Renzulli \u201911 MA, \u201913 Ph.D.<\/a>, who has served for two years as an associate visiting professor<\/a> in the Neag School, has been named assistant professor-in-residence in the Department of Educational Psychology\u2019s counselor education and counseling psychology program. Her work will include creating and managing online courses and programs; teaching courses in counselor education and counseling psychology; advising graduate students; and supporting the CACREP accreditation process.<\/p>\n She also had previously served in numerous roles at the University of Connecticut, including as an academic advisor, adjunct faculty member, academic counselor, and university specialist at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This fall, the Neag School welcomes its incoming hires, congratulates existing faculty members on new appointments, and celebrates the first full academic year with its dean, Jason G. Irizarry, and his newly appointed leadership team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":163828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1855],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1878],"class_list":["post-176818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neag"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 11:33:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176818"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198976,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176818\/revisions\/198976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/163828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176818"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=176818"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=176818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Morgaen Donaldson, Associate Dean for Research and Philip E. Austin Endowed Chair<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Morgaen](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Donaldson-Morgaen-300x200.jpg\")
Ann Traynor, Assistant Dean and Certification Officer<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Ann](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ann_traynor.jpg\")
Department of Educational Leadership<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Chen Chen, Assistant Professor<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Chen](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Chen-Chen-DSCF3137-683x1024-1-200x300.jpg\")
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\n\u2014 Chen Chen, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nAlexandra Freidus, Assistant Professor<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Alexandra](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Freidus-Headshot-240x300.jpg\")
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\n\u2014 Alexandra Freidus, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nNaRi Shin, Assistant Professor<\/h3>\n
![\"NaRi](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NShin-1024x683-1-1-300x206.jpg\")
Department of Educational Psychology<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Kylie Anglin, Assistant Professor<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Kylie](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Anglin-Headshot-Small-684x1024-1-1-200x300.jpg\")
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\n\u2014 Kylie Anglin, Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nSara Renzulli, Assistant Professor-in-Residence<\/strong><\/h3>\n
![\"Sara](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Renzulli_IMG_0281-300x300.jpg\")