Allison Black-Maier

Allison Black-Maier is a Research Associate at Catalyst Consulting Group, which serves as the backbone team that supports the Navigating Home project behind the scenes. She was trained as a cognitive psychologist and received her Ph.D. from Duke in 2017. Allison's doctoral research focused on learning and memory, studying the processes that promote long-term retention as well as those that make us prone to memory errors. Since graduating, she has applied her research skills as an evaluator of both formal and informal education programs. Allison particularly enjoys helping partners use relational databases that allow them to track the outcomes they care most about. For example, Allison helped develop and manage the Salesforce database that the SEAS Islands Alliance used to document student pathways in STEM.