Dawn is a Senior Program Manager, Learning Assessment at Amazon where she helps to innovate and scale workforce learning. She previously served as the Director of Learning Design and Assessment at the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Stanford University where she led the development of pedagogical and assessment solutions related to innovations in blended and online learning in higher education courses. Prior to working at OLI at Stanford, she was the Senior Director and Director of Assessment for the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Texas at Austin directing research and assessment efforts related to educational innovation initiatives. She has been working with university faculty and administrators on higher education assessment issues since 1998. Dawn earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from The College of New Jersey, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in measurement and evaluation and minor in statistics from the Pennsylvania State University. She has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses at Penn State University, Texas State University, and the University of Texas at Austin.



