PEABODY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
Dr. Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez
Lab Supervisor
Dr. Mancilla-Martinez’s research focuses on advancing the language and literacy development of elementary school students. Her work spans early childhood through adolescence and examines factors that influence reading outcomes to support effective instruction and intervention.
Bhabika Joshi
Lead Research Assistant
Bhabika Joshi is a third-year Special Education doctoral student at Vanderbilt University. She completed her Communication Sciences and Disorders B.S. and English B.A. at the University of Texas at Austin and her Special Education M.Ed. at Vanderbilt University. Bhabika was a 2018 Fulbright Scholar, teaching English in rural Nepal. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) at an autism clinic in North Texas. Her research interests include behavioral interventions for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and international education policy.
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Phoebe Ahn
Lead Research Assistant
Phoebe Ahn is a second-year Special Education doctoral student at Vanderbilt University. She completed her bachelor's at the University of California San Diego in 2017 and her Special Education M.Ed. from Vanderbilt in 2020. Prior to her doctoral studies, she taught elementary special education in California and South Korea. Her research interests include reading interventions and assessments for students with disabilities.
Sara is a Research Project Coordinator with the LLD-CLED lab, where she oversees the integration of study components and data management to support efficient research processes. She previously taught English to both adults and children in Japan, South Korea, and Venezuela, gaining a broad perspective on language learning across diverse cultures. Sara has also worked in pediatrics quality improvement research and coordinated several education research projects, including developing a computer adaptive assessment for word reasoning and morphological awareness, creating a translanguaging curriculum, and studying digital versus paper reading.
Sara McFadden
Project Coordinator
Our Research Assistant Team
Our Alumni
2024
Dr. Laura Buckley - Researcher, American Institutes of Research
Dr. Paige Johnson - Associate Director, Tennessee Association of Independent Schools
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2023
Jessie Wang - Doctoral Student, Vanderbilt University
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2022
Dr. Min Oh - Education Research Analyst, United States Department of Defense
2021
Olivia Horne - M.Ed. Student, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Dr. Israel Flores - Senior Manager of Learning and Impact, Nickelodeon
2020
Dr. Janna McClain - Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University
Elena Pokowitz - Research Coordinator, Penn Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2019
Jiali Wang - Ph.D. Student, University of California-Irvine