Leah Peña Teeters, PhD

Dr. Leah Peña Teeters is the Outreach and Education Director. Leah’s passion for collaborative design, compassionate pedagogy, rigorous and participatory research, and systematic approaches to creating caring futures brought her to the Crown Institute. She received her undergraduate degree in history and her Master's in Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity with endorsements in Special Education and Linguistically Diverse Education. She taught history in Central Mexico and Linguistically Diverse Education in rural Colorado. She earned her doctorate in Learning Sciences and Human Development from the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Teeters completed a medical fellowship in translational and clinical research in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. Her work in the Crown Institute focuses on training the next generation of scholars and practitioners.

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