Karen Moran Jackson Editor & Author

Dr. Rosemary Papa is the Founder of Educational Leaders Without Borders and she previously served as The Del and Jewel Lewis Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership and emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University from 2007-2018.  In 2015, she was the recipient of the AERA 2015 Willystine Goodsell Award, Women in Education SIG and gave the keynote address at AERA 2016, Washington, D.C. for her research on women and girls.  In 2012, she was the recipient of the Arizona School Administrators Outstanding Higher Education Administrator of the Year Award. Dr. Papa has published 25+ books in the areas of leadership, educational policy, social justice, sustainability, school effectiveness, and technology for school leaders and teachers and faculty in higher education. Additionally, she has 3 major works in progress: Editor-in-Chief, Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Administration (2021); Editor-in-Chief, Springer Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education (2020); and School Violence in International Contexts – Perspectives from Educational Leaders Without Borders (2019). As well, Dr. Papa has published more than eighty articles in refereed academic journals. She has served as a K-12 principal, chief school administrator, and worked in the California State University System office in a variety of intersegmental roles with the University of California.

Dr. Karen Moran Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and Assessment at Soka University of America. She came to Soka University after working as a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in quantitative analysis and research methods. Dr. Jackson graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a PhD from the department of educational psychology and a portfolio in applied statistical modeling from the department of statistics and data science. She has published in several academic, peer-reviewed journals and presented at conferences. Her research interests include adolescent development, mixed methods, and the use of data in educational settings. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a middle school science teacher in California and Texas.