2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Alexis Daniels (EdD, School of Education, Johns Hopkins University; Center for Educational Outreach, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University)
Correspondence: adanie43@jhu.edu

Alisha Sparks serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Educational Outreach within the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
She works to ensure and further the excellence, quality, and impact of the Baltimore PK-12 STEM Educational Outreach programs. Alisha has a B.S. in Mathematics from Voorhees College and a M.A. in Instructional Systems Development from UMBC. She has her Maryland State Department of Education Advanced Professional Certificate in Mathematics for Grades 7 – 12 with an Administrator I Supervisor and Assistant Principal Endorsement. She previously worked at Baltimore City Public Schools in the Office of Enrollment, Choice, and Transfers and taught math at Digital Harbor High School. She also coordinated the summer program for Baltimore Freedom Schools and was the Director of the K-12 Programs at the Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT) managing several NSF grants there.

Michael Falk is Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education and a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering where he has served on the faculty since 2008 with secondary appointme

Rachel E. Durham (PhD, Sociology & Demography, Pennsylvania State University) is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Notre Dame of Maryland University, and a Senior Fellow with the Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC). With a background in sociology of education, education policy, and demography, her research focuses on graduates’ transition to adulthood, career and college readiness, community schools, and research-practice partnerships.

Margo Williams is an Instructional Design Manager at Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering. She supports a portfolio of engineering and applied science courses and programs within the Whiting School, including BOAST over all five years of program testing, implementation, and refinement over multiple learning management systems (Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, and Schoology). She holds a B.A. in English from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and a graduate certificate in Instructional Systems Development and an M.S. in Human Centered Computing from University of Maryland, Baltimore County.