Jamie Harris

Jamie Harris is Digital Skills Senior Technical Advisor at the EdTech Center of World Education. She works on national projects that draw on her strengths and experience in digital literacy instruction, English language acquisition, adult education teaching and professional development, and immigrant integration. She has worked in adult education with Title II AEFLA-funded programs, Intensive English University Programs, and Foreign Language Schools. Prior to her position at World Education Inc., Ms. Harris was an Adult Education Program Specialist with the Maryland Department of Labor. Jamie has completed a bachelor's degree in Communication Studies, a master’s degree in education, as well nonprofit leadership certificate programs.

Lecester Johnson

Lecester Johnson is the Chief Executive Officer of Academy of Hope, a nonprofit adult public charter school. Academy of Hope empowers over 500 adults in the process of earning a high school credential and building foundational skills. Lecester’s passion for education began at the early age of twelve when she held her first class for her four siblings to prevent learning loss over summer break. Since then, Lecester has further supported education and workforce development, including assisting with the initial re-establishment of the DC Public Schools vocational evaluation program. She holds a master's and an education specialist (Ed.S) degree in transition special education and severe emotional disturbance from The George Washington University. In 2011, Lecester earned the Meyer Exponent Award for excellence in nonprofit management. She can be reached at: [email protected].

Holly McCoy

Holly McCoy is the Executive Director of Literacy Services of Wisconsin. Ms. McCoy holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Secondary Education and a Master of Arts in Adult Education, both from Alverno College. She has developed several innovative High School Equivalency Diploma programs. One of those programs, a new Construction HSED created in partnership with WRTP/BIG STEP, won a collaboration award at LISC’s annual MANDI Awards event and was recognized as an innovative practice by the U.S. Department of Education. Ms. McCoy has led two mergers and worked with her colleagues to make the agency a top-quartile AEFLA performer. Previous to her current role, she served as the Senior Director of Programs for Literacy Services, overseeing the programmatic operations of eight Milwaukee Area locations serving approximately 1,300 adult students annually. Ms. McCoy serves on several community committees related to adult literacy and workforce development. She can be reached at [email protected] 

Eric Nesheim

Eric serves as Managing Director - Digital Strategies at Literacy Minnesota. 

Eric has served in various program and management roles at Literacy Minnesota since 1990, prior to being named executive director in 2000. In addition, he is currently on the Governor's Workforce Development Council. He was a founding member and past president of the St. Paul Community Literacy Consortium, and serves on its executive committee. He has also served on the Adult Basic Education (ABE) Policy Task Force, on the ABE Teacher Licensure Task Force and as a member of the Governor’s Taskforce on Reading Excellence. Eric is a registered lobbyist and former president of Literacy Minnesota, an advocacy group for adult literacy.

Eric began his human services career by serving in the Peace Corps in Haiti and Paraguay. He earned his B.A. from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, and a Master’s of International Management from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul.

He can be reached at [email protected].

David J. Rosen

David J. Rosen holds a doctorate in education evaluation from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  He was Executive Director of the Adult Literacy Resource Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, from 1986 to 2003. As an independent consultant since 2003, he has recently provided education and evaluation services to, among other organizations: TERC, as an evaluator of the Massachusetts SABES adult basic education mathematics professional development center; Essential Education, to develop an online guide to blended learning for adult educators; and with Strategy Matters, to the City of Boston to assist in planning the Office of Workforce Development’s Career Pathways Initiative. He is the moderator of two U.S. Department of Education-sponsored LINCS communities of practice: Integrating Technology; and Program Management. David was the evaluator of English Now, a pilot nonformal education blended learning model sponsored by World Education’s Education Tech Center and Peer to Peer University, that provided English language instruction to adults on waiting lists for English classes. He is an advisor to the English Now! national scale-up project that began in the fall of 2018. David is a co-founder of the Open Door Collective. He can be reached at [email protected].

Theresa Sladek

Theresa Sladek, MA, is the Strategic Partnerships and Northstar Business Development Manager at Literacy Minnesota and works with organizations to ascertain and implement their digital literacy needs. Theresa also works with Literacy Minnesota’s national Open Door Collective program on poverty reduction through literacy.  Prior to this, she developed statewide training on Navigation related to adult persistence. Theresa has a BS in Biology from Lewis and Clark College and a MA in Counseling Psychology from the University of St. Thomas. She worked as a counselor, project manager and corporate trainer before joining the field of education.

Gwenn Weaver

Gwenn Weaver is an independent management consultant, recently retired from working as a broadband program specialist at the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).  She served as federal program officer for NTIA's Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), and staffed the development of the federal Digital Literacy Portal (digitaliteracy.gov).  Presently, she is participating in a project for a ProLiteracy, serving on the Committee on Literacy of the American Library Association, and is a national advisor to the Great Stories program of the ALA.  Prior to joining NTIA, she was a vice president at a higher education consulting practice, and has worked for other federal government agencies, two large research universities, several consulting firms and a major bank.  She began her career in libraries, having been a public, school, academic and special librarian.  She holds a Master of Business Administration in information systems, Master of Science in Library Science, Bachelor of Arts in sociology and an Associate of Arts degree. She can be reached at [email protected]

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