Asim Gazi, Gardner Pilot Academy

“I never feel like I’m quite the expert – I’m always learning,” Dr. Asim Gazi confided during a recent Pathfinders visit. Dr. Gazi is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Earlier this month, he...

Kaitlin Gili, Blackstone Elementary School

Dr. Kaitlin Gili is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University where she’s analyzing machine learning as it relates to human learning. She obtained her PhD from the University of Oxford in the field of quantum physics and machine...

Shani Fletcher, Rafael Hernández K-8 School

“Does everyone know what a boss is?” Shani Fletcher asked the first graders in Darlene Prado and Brenda Rosario’s classes at the Hernandez K-8 School. The students responded with an enthusiastic “yes!” Shani told them that as the Director for City of Boston’s...

Birgitta Dickerson, Eliot K-8

 “It’s so important for students to see themselves represented in positions of power, so I’m grateful that [Gitta] specifically came to see our classroom.”  A powerful insight shared by special education ELA teacher, Rebecca Reid, when reflecting on a recent...

Darryl Walton, The O’Bryant School

Darryl Walton, Associate Clinical Professor and Director of Community Business Clinic at Northeastern University School of Law, visited Laura Rosenfield’s advisory group at the John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science as our final Pathfinders visit for the academic...

Gary Prado, Rafael Hernández K-8 School

The latest Pathfinder to join Boston Partners in Education in the classroom is Gary Prado. Gary is Senior Legal Counsel at Fidelity Investments and a former Big Cheese Reader. Students in Ms. Nucci’s 3rd-grade class at the Hernandez School were over the moon to...