Grace Bennett-Pierre

Grace Bennett-Pierre, Ph.D., is a CIRES Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation (CEEE) and NOAA’s Science on a Sphere (SOS). She completed a doctorate in Developmental Psychology with a Quantitative Concentration at Temple University and a BA in Psychology from Wellesley College. She has previously studied how caregivers’ beliefs and behavior shape children’s challenge-seeking, and how non-rigid spatial skills support STEM and arts learning, with a particular focus on gendered spatial experiences. While in graduate school, Grace was a Temple Public Policy Lab Fellow. In her role at CEEE, Grace will research how and what people learn most effectively from SOS, particularly in informal learning contexts.