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Appendix C: Brief Biographies of Committee Members and Presenters
Pages 77-80

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... She created the California Afterschool Advocacy Alliance and the State Legislative Task Force on Summer Learning, and cochairs California's Summer Matters Campaign. In 2011, she was appointed senior policy advisor and transition team director for Tom Torlakson, state superintendent of public instruction.
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From page 78...
... She is currently the president of the California Science Teachers Association. Anita Krishnamurthi is the vice president for STEM policy at the Afterschool Alliance, where she leads efforts to advance policies, research, and partnerships to provide STEM education experiences in afterschool programs.
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From page 79...
... She serves as principal investigator on several projects, including the NSF MSP Research+Practice Collaboratory, California Tinker­ng i Network, and the NSF-funded Relating Research to Practice Website. She sits on the California STEM Afterschool Advisory Committee and the National Research Council's Committee on STEM Learning in Out-ofSchool Settings, and is coeditor of the Science Learning in Everyday Life section of the journal Science Education.
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From page 80...
... She has written labs for Holt, McDougal Textbook Publishing Company; developed and taught an Afterschool Instruction course for the University of California, Irvine, Department of Education; and is currently serving on the Next Generation Science Standards Science Expert Panel for the California Department of Education. CynDee Zandes worked for 39 years in the Greenfield Union School District in California.
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