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Our Staff Joseph Malloy, Consultant Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1987 Rita Gaber, Senior Associate Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Expected 2006 Micaela Pronio, Assistant M.A., Rutgers, 1989 Anne Marie Richard, Senior Associate Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2004 Pamela Geisler, Associate B.A., UC Santa Cruz, 1999 Joseph Malloy, Ph.D. Joseph Malloy, Ph.D., has been the Principal Partner at the Kensington Research Group since its founding in 1989. Dr. Malloy's broad interests in organizational behavior, public education, and social policy are reflected in the evaluations he designs for state and federally-funded programs in California, which include teacher training and professional development, mentoring, teen pregnancy prevention, violence prevention, family literacy, early childhood education, voluntary integration, and technology education, among others. Before his career in consulting, Dr. Malloy taught history in an urban school district in northern California, and later worked as a school administrator in the District's Office of Governmental Relations. Rita Gaber Rita Gaber joined the Kensington Research Group in 1999 as an Associate, after working as the Foundation Administrator at the Potlatch Corporation, and later as an Account Manager for a small production and communications firm in San Francisco. With her colleagues at KRG, Ms. Gaber has written a number of successful grant proposals which have provided funds for family literacy, mentoring, early childhood education, community health, technology education, school reform, and teen pregnancy prevention programs in California. Ms. Gaber also has experience writing qualitative and quantitative evaluations for a range of education, health, and social service programs. In addition to her work as a grant-writer and evaluator, Ms. Gaber is beginning her third-year as a Ph.D. student in the Geography Department at UC Berkeley, where she plans to write a dissertation on health and community organizing in California. Micaela Pronio Micaela Pronio has been with the Kensington Research Group since 1995, handling data summary/entry and office support duties. She has an M.S. in Geography from Rutgers University, and is currently taking courses in landscape design. Anne Marie Richard Anne Marie Richard has been with the Kensington Research Group since 1996, providing grant writing, consulting and evaluation services, as well as project management for Paraprofessional Teacher Training (a.k.a. Career Ladder) Programs. Prior to joining the KRG, Ms. Richard worked for immigrant rights organizations in the Bay Area, and with popular education and human rights initiatives in Central America. Ms. Richard completed her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. In addition to her professional work, Ms. Richard enjoys outdoor activities and raising a family. Pamela Geisler Pamela joined the Kensington Research Group in 2005, after working for a number of years in educational research. She brings experience in evaluation, project management and after-school program design and instruction. She has worked on a variety of educational projects focusing on areas such as community building, youth development, parent education, mental health and educational enrichment. In addition to her work in education, Pamela also is an avid horseback rider and was formerly a competitor with the U.S Equestrian Team. |
