Full Name
Brooke Shafar
Job Title
Educational Development Specialist
Company
Wayne State University
Speaker Bio
Brooke Shafar is an Educational Development Specialist in the Office for Teaching and Learning at Wayne State University. In this role, she provides individual consultations and workshops for instructors that are often focused on inclusive pedagogies and designs asynchronous resources for instructors on a variety of teaching topics. She earned her PhD in German Studies in 2016 from Washington University in St. Louis. Her current areas of interest include inclusive teaching practices, neurodiversity and disability in higher education, and the role of play in learning. Carly M. Lesoski is the Learning Innovation Program Manager in the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. Their primary roles are coordinating the grant and faculty professional development opportunities of the Accessible Dartmouth Initiative and the Teaching with Gen AI Initiative. They earned a PhD in German Studies in 2019 from Michigan State University. Their dissertation focused on heritage language learners of German and their identity formation during a telecollaborative (virtual) exchange. Their current research interests focus on instructor and student experiences of accessibility, UDL, neurodivergence, and joy in the college classroom.