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Educating for Leadership, Inc. (E4L) is the 501(c)3 non-profit behind T3 Alliance. E4L supports efforts that foster innovative, inspiring, and creative learning environments for young people in underserved communities. E4L seeks collaborative partnerships that match the vision, mission and goals. Learn more about E4L

The driving force behind T3 Alliance is the core values held dearly by the leadership team. These values Adaptable, Fun, Inquisitive, Respect, Equity make learning AFIRE!

With each team member’s commitment to educating the future, we push boundaries. The team has fun learning with inquisitive classrooms, engaging local partners and providing communities with an adaptable education model that includes respect and equity in learning.

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Roxanne Mourant

Elfin Cove, Alaska

Roxy is a leader, educator and gets things done. As the CEO of Educating for Leadership, an Alaska based global non-profit corporation, Roxy is responsible for the oversight of the T3 Alliance. She seeks out opportunities to collaborate and grow as defined by the mission of E4L for underserved populations. Her life-long work is based on relationships with people whose passion matches the values and determination for creating a successful Growth Mindset space where students can feel safe to create, make mistakes and be energized through discovery learning while appreciating the importance of giving back to their community.

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Dr. John Monahan

Fairbanks, Alaska

Dr. John Monahan began the T3 Alliance when he was Director of University of Alaska Fairbanks, Upward Bound and Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundations EPSCoR “Teaching Through Technology (T3) Alliance”. Currently John continues as one of the lead principal investigator of the T3 Alliance serving through grants and research administration.

John’s career has included serving as Superintendent of Schools in Iditarod Areas School District and Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, Alaska, faculty with the University of Alaska Anchorage Educational Leadership Program, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Cohort Chair, Professional Development Trainer with Apple Inc., Director of Distance Education with University of Alaska Statewide Academic Affairs, Director of the Alaska Distance Education Consortium (AKDEC), and PI of Alaska’s Broadband Technology Opportunity Program/Sustainable Broadband Adoption and an EPSCoR Track 3 project.

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Dr. Nicole Norfles

Washington, D.C.

Dr. Nicole Norfles, Director, Program Practice and Innovation at Council for Opportunity in Education, facilitates COE’s STEM Community of Practice; is Co-Pi on multiple NSF grants; coordinates the U.S. Department of Education 2016-2018 Recordkeeping trainings; directs the U.S. Department of Education 2016-2018 Financial Aid training; directs the COE Onboarding Professional Development: and facilitates the TRIO Chicago Collaborative. Dr. Norfles previously served as the Education Program Officer with the Oprah Winfrey Foundation, as a Policy Consultant with Casey Family Programs, as Special Assistant to the founding President of COE, and as Fellow in the PELL INSTITUTE. She co-taught a South Africa study abroad course with Michigan State University, an online Leadership course at Drexel University, and courses in educational foundations, leadership and supervision at the George Washington University. She has presented at numerous national and international conferences, and serves on multiple Boards. Dr. Norfles received her doctorate from The George Washington University.

Adam Low

Fairbanks, Alaska

Adam Low is the Director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Upward Bound Program. He is a science and technology educator with a passion for involving students in community engagement projects. Adam has extensive experience developing and supporting curriculum to connect STEM technologies and service-learning as part of both the T3 Alliance and Modern Blanket Toss National Science Foundations grants. He has directed a maker space as a teacher at a charter school, supported an online school based on cultural and environmental learning in Hawaii, has taught in the classroom rural Alaska, and has worked as a professional geologist. In 2008 Adam was named science teacher of the year for the state of Alaska.

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Dayne Broderson

Fairbanks, Alaska

Dayne is a research and operational IT manager at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geographic Information Network of Alaska (UAF-GINA). Dayne performs general and technical management, program development, and outreach for GINA. Dayne has a background in Computer Science (B.S in CS from UAF). Dayne manages systems that receive, process, and distribute near real time satellite data, large geospatial map data, and geospatial application services using systems deployed across multiple data centers in Alaska University campuses in addition to systems within other federal and State of Alaska data centers. Dayne supports and multiple research projects to build out cyberinfrastructure capacity across all three University of Alaska campuses. Dayne helps researchers and agency partners find solutions to manage, host and distribute data and services for research and operational use by a wide spectrum of general public, research, and operational users a variety of networks and systems in Alaska.

Dayne enjoys hacking on Linux systems and exploring new what new capabilities small system on a chip (SoC) computers, like Raspberry Pis, bring for fun projects at home and for real world applications.

T3 Alliance Leadership Advisory Members

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Jasmine Johnson

Director for the Upward Bound program at Miami Dade College, Homestead Campus

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Lindy Guernsey

Engineering major student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

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