Erin Grogan holds a PhD in Education Policy from Michigan State University, a Masters of Public Administration from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and Political Science from Union College. She is Partner, Research and Evaluation for The New Teacher Project (TNTP), overseeing TNTP’s internal research portfolio and managing program evaluation projects for large school districts across the country. Her research focuses on teacher certification, development, and evaluation, and has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Developmental Psychology and Education Researcher. She currently serves as an appointed member of the New Hampshire Department of Education’s Professional Standards Board. She was formerly a 3rd grade teacher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and a charter school administrator in Philadelphia.
Dr. Grogan has been involved in therapeutic riding since 2004, when she first became a volunteer at a program in North Carolina. She became a PATH-certified Registered Instructor in 2014, and serves on the Board of Directors of Miracles in Motion Therapeutic Riding in Keene, NH. She is an avid rider with her trusty Morgan mare, Isabel.
"I am honored to join HHRF's Scientific Advisory Board, as I am deeply committed to building a rigorous research base exploring the outcomes of equine assisted therapies. I am particularly interested in seeing increased collaboration between researchers who study interventions for children with disabilities in the K-12 school setting and those who study interventions in the equine assisted therapy setting."