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Activities of the SPARC Center are supported by two Advisory Boards of research and education policy leaders. The Research Advisory Board members include Drs. Bonnie Billingsley, Mary Brownell, David DeMatthews, Dan Goldhaber, Adai Tefera, and Bill Therrien. The Policy Advisory Board members are Drs. Tessie Bailey, Cara Jackson, Lisa Lachlan-Hache, Erica McCray, Laurie VanderPloeg, and Rebecca Zumeta Edmonds. 

Headshot for Dr. Billingsley.
Bonnie Billingsley
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Mary Brownell
University of Florida
Headshot for Dr. DeMatthews.
David DeMatthews
University of Texas at Austin
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Tessie Rose Bailey
American Institutes for Research
Dan Goldhaber
Dan Goldhaber
American Institutes for Research
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Cara Jackson
Center for Outcomes Based Contracting
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Erica D. McCray
University of Florida
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Laurie VanderPloeg
Council for Exceptional Children
Headshot for Dr. Tefera.
Adai A. Tefera
University of Arizona
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Bill Therrien
University of Virginia