24 Apr Meet Our Team
Meet Our Team
ILC prioritizes kindness and psychological safety. Our skilled team advances clients through competitive research, evaluation, proposal development, and program implementation. We’re dedicated to providing evaluation, research, and assessment services that facilitate organizational, program, and student success. .
Peak Performance Evaluation
and Data Analysts
Our deep-dive analytics assess cognitive and non-cognitive variables, measuring increases in STEM knowledge and psychosocial variables that enhance learning. We use data collection and grounded theory in qualitative analysis and statistical inferential quantitative analysis to structure competitive evaluation studies and offer research services—all within psychologically safe spaces for clients to increase their organizational effectiveness and student success.
Angelicque Tucker Blackmon
CEO
By leveraging her expertise in data analytics and ethnography, she is able to provide clients with the tools to design and implement human-driven STEM evaluation and education programs that have a real and lasting impact.
An accomplished academic and scientist, Dr. Blackmon earned her Ph.D. in Educational Studies with an emphasis in Science Education from Emory University. She also holds her B.S. and an M.S. in Analytical Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology and completed a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cultural Anthropology.
Before she founded ILC in 2003, she worked as a research chemist with Dow Chemical and 3M.
Dr. Blackmon is a passionate researcher and evaluator, working on over 20 funded programs designed to increase students’ knowledge, interests, and skills in STEM. Her esteemed work has led to the publication of over 30 reports, conference presentations, and research papers.
In addition to her work at ILC, Angelicque serves as a principal investigator on an eye-tracking distance learning research study set to shift how we measure and understand problem difficulty and cognitive activity during chemistry problem-solving. Research findings from this study have implications for chemistry education and software development to improve chemistry education.
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Jeff Miles
Specialist Cybersecurity and Information Technology
Jeff has successfully managed corporate and franchise-owned businesses. His role in acquisition and development is often relied upon to gain a crucial understanding of potential growth opportunities in future markets through his expert analysis. Jeff advises the ILC leadership team on strategies to improve the management of revenue generated through various strategic business units.
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Zhina Shen Ph.D.
Director of Research and Evaluation
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Karen Falkenberg Ph.D.
Senior Advisor
Dr. Falkenberg is a nationally and internationally recognized science and engineering education expert. She has a patent for solar cell technology and was a contributor to Technically Speaking: Why all Americans need to know more about technology (2002) published by the National Academy of Engineering. She has taught over 1000 teachers and has individually coached approximately 100 teachers and 25 emerging leaders.
Karen advised the ILC leadership team on the execution and scaling of innovative learning and leadership strategies that build the skills and internal motivation of teachers, students, and educational leaders.
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Franita Ware Ph.D.
Qualitative Evaluation Analyst
Dr. Ware is the author of a classical research publication on Warm Demander Teachers, which continues to be cited and reviewed in the academic press, led to hundreds of workshops, and is continued to be valued by classroom teachers.
Her continued focus on professional development for educators informs her scholarship, which focuses on the internal work of Radical Self-Care. Radical Self-Care requires a focus on educators’ well-being as an initial step toward racial and educational equity. Dr. Ware started training Denver Public School’s employees in Radical Self Care in 2016, reaching schools and departments and becoming a part of the DPS’s school system culture. Additionally, she has trained Denver Public Schools’ Gifted and Talented (GT) Teams and partnered with the Culture Equity and Leadership Team (CELT) to shift the mindsets of educators in the gifted and talented department. This training was led by Dr. Ware and was awarded The National Association for Gifted Children Professional Learning Award.
Dr. Ware realizes that supporting educators’ growth to be culturally responsive and eventually anti-racist teachers requires the first step of an intentional focus on health and well-being. This allows educators to disrupt and begin to heal from the racialized trauma that is a significant aspect of American culture.
Dr. Ware’s unique contribution to the education community is the Radical Self-Care workshop. Radical Self-Care has been developed through training with educators who give numerous examples of the positive impact of Radical Self-Care on their social-emotional, physical, and brain health, which supports educators’ and administrators’ ability to disrupt biases. In Radical Self-Care, Dr. Ware examines how to minimize the impact of American culture-supported stress by focusing on restorative sleep, movement and exercise, nutrition, nurturing relationships, and purposeful work that can begin to heal racialized trauma.
The theoretical framework of Radical Self Care is neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, and Positive Psychology. Dr. Ware believes when we understand the difference between temporary pampering and intentional and consistent care, which is Radical Self Care, we build resiliency and become better at creating healthy relationships and managing life’s stressors. Dr. Franita Ware feeds her creative side through nature photography and values the healing of gardening and sharing her organic produce,
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Heather Wright Ph.D.
Qualitative Evaluation Analyst
Dr. Ware is the author of a classical research publication on Warm Demander Teachers, which continues to be cited and reviewed in the academic press, led to hundreds of workshops, and is continued to be valued by classroom teachers.
Her continued focus on professional development for educators informs her scholarship, which focuses on the internal work of Radical Self-Care. Radical Self-Care requires a focus on educators’ well-being as an initial step toward racial and educational equity. Dr. Ware started training Denver Public School’s employees in Radical Self Care in 2016, reaching schools and departments and becoming a part of the DPS’s school system culture. Additionally, she has trained Denver Public Schools’ Gifted and Talented (GT) Teams and partnered with the Culture Equity and Leadership Team (CELT) to shift the mindsets of educators in the gifted and talented department. This training was led by Dr. Ware and was awarded The National Association for Gifted Children Professional Learning Award.
Dr. Ware realizes that supporting educators’ growth to be culturally responsive and eventually anti-racist teachers requires the first step of an intentional focus on health and well-being. This allows educators to disrupt and begin to heal from the racialized trauma that is a significant aspect of American culture.
Dr. Ware’s unique contribution to the education community is the Radical Self-Care workshop. Radical Self-Care has been developed through training with educators who give numerous examples of the positive impact of Radical Self-Care on their social-emotional, physical, and brain health, which supports educators’ and administrators’ ability to disrupt biases. In Radical Self-Care, Dr. Ware examines how to minimize the impact of American culture-supported stress by focusing on restorative sleep, movement and exercise, nutrition, nurturing relationships, and purposeful work that can begin to heal racialized trauma.
The theoretical framework of Radical Self Care is neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, and Positive Psychology. Dr. Ware believes when we understand the difference between temporary pampering and intentional and consistent care, which is Radical Self Care, we build resiliency and become better at creating healthy relationships and managing life’s stressors. Dr. Franita Ware feeds her creative side through nature photography and values the healing of gardening and sharing her organic produce.
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Kelly Correa Ph.D.
Quantitative Evaluation Analyst
Dr. Correa serves as an ILC Quantitative Data Analyst working with clients to assess how STEM education programs modulate students’ science motivation, anxiety, self-efficacy, and problem-solving. She will assess how STEM education programs modulate students’ allostatic load to improve their learning performance. Also, Dr. Correa collaborates with Dr. Blackmon to expand the Eye-tracking Distance learning research study, where they will use eye-tracking data to analyze where students allocate their visual attention while responding to chemistry multiple-choice items.
Learn more about Dr. Correa’s research on Research Gate.
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Andrea Frankenstein
Quantitative Evaluation Analyst
Andrea’s specialties include experimental design and quantitative research. She is skilled at analyzing quantitative data using ANOVA, regression, mediation, and other techniques. Additionally, Andrea has expertise in synthesizing statistical findings into reports that are accessible to both academic and non-academic audiences.
Learn more about Andrea’s research on Research Gate.
Dr. Falkenberg is a nationally and internationally recognized science and engineering education expert. She has a patent for solar cell technology and was a contributor to Technically Speaking: Why all Americans need to know more about technology (2002) published by the National Academy of Engineering. She has taught over 1000 teachers and has individually coached approximately 100 teachers and 25 emerging leaders.
Karen advised the ILC leadership team on the execution and scaling of innovative learning and leadership strategies that build the skills and internal motivation of teachers, students, and educational leaders.
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Alison Sklenar, Ph.D.
Quantitative Evaluation Analyst
Allison’s specialties include experimental design and quantitative research. She is skilled at analyzing quantitative data using ANOVA, regression, mediation, and other techniques. Additionally, Allison has expertise in synthesizing statistical findings into reports that are accessible to both academic and non-academic audiences.
Learn more about Allison on Research Gate
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Terrence Calistro, Ph.D.
Data Statistician
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