VEST Education and Research Speaker Series: Angela Henneberger

Dr. Angela K. Henneberger is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Dr. Henneberger's research is situated at the intersection of education, developmental science, and prevention science, leveraging administrative data to examine the academic, social, and behavioral development of students in school contexts, with implications for strengthening the design and implementation of school-based policies and prevention programming. Her research leveraging administrative data to support decisions in school-based settings has won awards from the Society for Prevention Research and the American Educational Research Association. Dr. Henneberger also serves as the Research Director of the Maryland Longitudinal Data System (MLDS) Center Research Branch, an interagency agreement with the state of Maryland to conduct advanced statistical analyses to inform state and local education policy decisions. Her research has been funded by the state of Maryland, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Henneberger received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, where she was awarded an IES predoctoral fellowship. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Pennsylvania State University in the Prevention and Methodology Training (PAMT) program.