FACULTY & GLOBAL AFFILIATE SCHOLAR BIOGRAPHIES
DR. POLLY MANSKE pmanske@uwsp.edu
Prior to joining UWSP, Polly has had experiences in a variety of educational settings as a school business manager, classroom teacher, literacy and math interventionist, reading specialist, migrant services coordinator, English Language Learner services coordinator, Title 1 coordinator, literacy consultant, university assistant professor in education, and educational field experience supervisor. Her research focuses on exploring opportunities for inclusivity in education. She is passionate about creating opportunities for all students, at all levels of education, to be successful in today’s fast-paced world by focusing on designing dynamic programming that meets the needs of individual learners. DR. ERIN REDMAN eredman@uwsp.edu Erin Redman is the program director and assistant professor of Educational Sustainability in the School of Education at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Prof. Redman comes to UWSP from Leuphana University of Luneburg (Germany) where she has been a research associate and program lead on an international sustainability education collaboration for the Global Consortium of Sustainability Outcomes (GCSO) for the last three years. The GCSO project focuses on the implementation of sustainability professional development workshops for in-service teachers from across Germany, Ireland, and Mexico.Prior to joining Leuphana, Prof. Redman
created and led the Sustainability Teachers’ Academy, a professional development program for in-service teachers from all over the United States. She was also a faculty member at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), where she integrated sustainability throughout their undergraduate programs as well as designed a stand- alone sustainability undergraduate program. During her two years at UNAM, Prof. Redman conducted research on sustainable behavior change and the waste system of Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. In addition to her research and teaching in sustainability education, Prof. Redman has worked with women in El Salvador to develop community-based woman-run cooperatives and she has spent the last decade as a ‘foster mom’ to more than 50 dogs. She is a native Wisconsinite and is thrilled to be part of the Pointer team working on educational sustainability.
ED.D. IN EDUCATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY
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