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Courtney L. Brown, Ph.D.
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Dr. Courtney Brown's past evaluations and research bring a wide-range of experience and expertise to CEEP. Dr. Brown has directed evaluations for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Education, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, community service organizations, and colleges and universities. Her areas of interest are in education, community organizations, science and technology.

Dr. Brown holds degrees from James Madison University (B.A. in International Affairs and Spanish) and the University of Virginia (M.A. in Linguistics and Ph.D. in Educational Evaluation).

Marcey A. Moss, Ph.D.
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Dr. Marcey Moss brings to the Center solid experience in demographic research and analysis as well as in character education. In her work as a Research Analyst she was the first to conduct a three-year longitudinal study of a character education program. As the Assistant Director of the New Community Project she contributed to the understanding of diminishing population trends in rural areas and changes in farm types and/or sizes throughout the state and surrounding regions. Dr. Moss has also acquired extensive experience in demographic analysis as a Lead Research Assistant at the Census Data Center at South Dakota State University providing regional support to researchers with a wide range of social and economic indicators.

Dr. Moss has a Master of Science in Rural Sociology and a Ph.D. in Sociology from South Dakota State University with an emphasis in Demography and Human Ecology.

Shana Ritter
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Shana Ritter works with Dr. Skiba on CEEP’s Initiative on Opportunity and Equity program. She has a wide array of experience in educational settings including classroom teaching, school reform, curriculum development, teacher education, and family involvement. Ritter has worked with urban and rural schools in the areas of innovative programming, school-wide planning, inclusivity, and diversity.

Aside from her work at CEEP, Ritter teaches courses on diversity at Indiana University. She holds degrees from the University of Buffalo.

Emily C. Rouge, Ph.D.
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Dr. Emily Rouge has been working in the evaluation field both in Indiana and Illinois. Previous evaluation experience includes work on the evaluation of Illinois’ Great START program, a teacher retention initiative as well as other education related initiatives. Prior to joining the staff of CEEP, she served as the project manager for evaluation with the Indiana Youth Institute. In this capacity she oversaw the internal evaluation of the institute’s approximately twenty-four programs.

Dr. Rouge holds degrees from Indiana University (B.S. in Primary Education) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (M.S. and Ph.D. in Human and Community Development, with an emphasis in Human Development and Family Studies). Her research interests include the professional development of educators as well as the influence of ecological systems on human development.

Anne-Maree Ruddy, Ph.D.
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Dr. Anne-Maree Ruddy’s research background and interests are in analysis of policy, its development and implementation. Her experience in the US and internationally has been in education systems with an emphasis on school environments and higher education using quantitative and qualitative approaches using comprehensive studies requiring the use of a range of research skills; the collection and analysis of international, government and local policy documents, international, national and site specific statistics, reports and key stakeholders’ accounts on site.

Dr. Ruddy holds degrees from Edith Cowan University (Perth, Western Australia) B.Ed., The University of Western Australia (Master of Educational Administration) with an emphasis in Educational Policy and a Ph.D. from Murdoch University (Perth, Western Australia) with an emphasis in International and Comparative Educational Policy.