P.E.O. Staff Profiles

STAFF

Programs for Educational Opportunity
U.S. Department of Education Equity Assistance Center

University of Michigan, 1005 School of Education
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

Percy Bates, Ph.D., Director

Specialization: Special education, high-risk students, student assessment

E-mail address: pbates@umich.edu

Trish Kraus, B.S., Administrative Assistant II

E-mail address: pkraus@umich.edu

Priscilla Rice, B.S.A., Research Secretary III

E-mail address: parice@umich.edu

Salome Gebre-Egziabher, M.A., Program Manager, Michigan

Specialization: Multicultural gender-fair education, teacher-student interaction and achievement, prevention of ethnic, racial, and sexual harassment, prejudice reduction, parent/community involvement, conflict management, third-World women's issues, and charter-school leadership training.

E-mail address:> sge@umich.edu

Marta Larson, M.A., Program Manager, Wisconsin

Specialization: Parent-community involvement, harassment prevention, teacher-student interactions, equitable discipline management, and personnel administration.

E-mail address: mlarson@umich.edu

Tasha Lebow, B.S.W., >Program Manager, Illinois and Ohio

Specialization: Multicultural gender-fair curriculum; instruction, prejudice reduction, women's history, anti-bias curriculum, integrated thematic curriculum, and community action.

E-mail address: tlebow@umich.edu

Elizabeth M. Mimms, Ph.D., MSW, Program Manager, Indiana

Specialization: Strategic planning; monitoring and evaluation; conference presentations; staff development; and focus group facilitation. Cross cultural communication, diversity awareness, and other issues of cultural competence; bullying, harassment prevention, and disproportionate student discipline; raising strong and successful African American girls; and application of the spirit and intent of Federal Civil Rights laws in traditional and charter public schools.

E-mail address: emimms@umich.edu

Iva A. Smith, M.A., Program Manager, Minnesota

Specialization: Multicultural, gender and disability-fair education; inclusive curriculum development and assessment; student leadership training; cross-cultural communications interventions; program development for linguistically diverse students; parent involvement; charter-schools leadership training; conflict management; harassment and violence prevention.

E-mail address: eixa@umich.edu

Last updated: 11/05/2009. Comments to: peo@umich.edu.