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Research Unit of Harvard Project Zero, Stanford Center on Adolesence and The Quality Of Life Research Center at Claremont Graduate University. Copyright 2007, President and Fellows of Harvard College
GoodWork is more than a project. It can change our world."
— Frances Hesselbein, Chairman, Leader to Leader Institute
“Your GoodWork Project will continue to evolve and influence in ways
that cannot fully be anticipated—nor directly measured.”
— Thomas J. Tierney, Chairman and Founder, The Bridgespan Group
Primary Investigators:
Howard Gardner is the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Lindsay Pettingill is a Research Assistant at Harvard Project Zero and is active
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD, is Professor at the Drucker School of Management
at Claremont Graduate University and the director of the Quality of Life Research
Center. His books include the bestselling Flow, Being Adolescent, The Evolving Self,
Creativity, Finding Flow, Becoming Adult and Good Business . He is a member of the
American Academy of Education, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the
National Academy of Leisure Sciences. He lives in Claremont, California.
Read his faculty biography from CGU's website.
Learn more about the Quality of Life Research Center.
William Damon, PhD, is Professor of Education and Director of the Center on
Adolescence at Stanford University. For the past twenty years, Damon has written
widely on moral development at all ages of human life. His books include Self-
Understanding in Childhood and Adolescence, The Moral Child, Some Do Care,
Greater Expectations,The Youth Charter, and most recently published, The Moral
Advantage: How to Succeed in Business by Doing the Right Thing. Damon has
received awards from many foundations, including the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, The John Templeton Foundation, and the Carnegie
Corporation of New York. He lives in Northern California and the South Coast
of Massachusetts.
Read his faculty profile at Stanford's website.
Learn more about the Center on Adolescense at Stanford.
Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a leading thinker about education
and human development; he has studied and written extensively about
intelligence, creativity, leadership, and professional ethics. Gardner’s most recent
books include Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet, Changing Minds:
The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People’s Minds, and most
recently, The Development and Education of the Mind, a collection of his writings
in education. He has been honored with the MacArthur "Genius" award, the
University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award and twenty honorary doctorates. He
lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Visit his website at www.howardgardner.com.
Read his faculty profle on Harvard's website.
Lynn Barendsen is a Project Manager at the GoodWork® Project. After
graduating from Bates College , Lynn spent several years engaged in graduate
study in American literature at the University of Chicago and Boston University.
She has published articles on African American and regionalist literatures. At
Boston University she taught courses in literature and film, English and American
literature, and expository writing. Lynn has been working on the GoodWork®
Project since 1997, focusing in particular on the work of young professionals.
She has written several articles about young social and business entrepreneurs
and young professionals in theater and business. Most recently, she has
authored a chapter about the relationship between social entrepreneurs and
their funders; this essay will appear in the forthcoming Taking Philanthropy
Seriously (Indiana University Press, Fall 2006). With Wendy Fischman, she
has co-developed the GoodWork® Toolkit, designed to help develop a common
language that school communities and other institutions can use to define their
work and identify their goals.
Katie Davis is a former elementary school teacher and current doctoral student in the
Human Development and Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of
Education. She also works as a Research Assistant on the Trust and Trustworthiness
Project and the GoodPlay Project at HGSE. Her research interests include: adolescents'
identity formation in the context of the new digital media; the relationship between
teacher-student relationships, social-emotional development, and academic
achievement; and the formation and exercise of mental models of trust and
trustworthiness across diverse contexts. Katie holds a BA in English from Williams
College and an Ed.M. in Mind, Brain, and Education from Harvard University.
Wendy Fischman joined Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of
Education in 1995 as a researcher with Project Co-Arts, a study of educationally
effective community art centers. Since 1996, she has managed various aspects
of the GoodWork® Project, specifically focused on the meaning of work in the
lives of young children, adolescents, and novice professionals. Wendy has
written about education and human development in several scholarly and
popular articles addressing topics such as life long commitment to service work,
inspirational mentoring, and teaching in precollegiate education. She is lead
author of Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work,
published by Harvard University Press in 2004. Most recently, Wendy has
co-developed a curriculum for students and teachers to introduce the concept
of “good work” in classrooms and schools. Wendy has taught humanities to
middle school students and has evaluated school reform programs facilitated
by a government-sponsored Regional Laboratory. She received a BA from
Northwestern University.
Andrea Flores is a Research Assistant on the GoodPlay Project. Andrea comes to
Project Zero from WGBH-Boston's Masterpiece Theatre, where she was involved in
new media initiatives for the program aimed at audience engagement. In addition to
digital media, Andrea is also interested in Latin American studies. She received her AB
in Social Anthropology from Harvard College in 2005.
John M. Francis is a Research Assistant on the GoodPlay Project focused on ethics and
youth experiences in the new digital media. He comes to Project Zero from
Gather.com, a social networking and blogging website geared towards adults where
he organized, managed and marketed online communities. John earned his AB from
Tufts University in 2004 with concentrations in international relations and German
studies. In addition to the digital media space, his other interests include German
language and culture, human rights advocacy, travel and music.
Sam Gilbert is a Research Assistant at Harvard Project Zero working on the Goodwork
team’s GoodPlay Project and Trust and Trustworthiness Project. His research interests
include the role of web design in online interaction, the ethics of collaborative gaming,
and the interface between social networking websites and offline social life. Sam
graduated from Harvard University in 2007 with an AB in Social Studies and plans to
pursue graduate study in the social sciences.
Carrie James is a Research Director at the GoodWork® Project at the Harvard Gradute
School of Education. Her current work is focused on the GoodPlay Project and the
Trust and Trustworthiness Project. She has also been involved in the GoodWork
Project's studies of medicine, higher education, and philanthropy. Carrie recently
published an article about gender and professional responsibility in Responsibility at
Work (2007), edited by Howard Gardner. Her research interests include young people's
engagement with the new digital media; ethical issues that arise at work and at play;
and sociology of gender and education. Carrie has an MA and Ph.D. in Sociology from
New York University.
Jeanne Nakamura, PhD (University of Chicago) is currently Research Director of
the Quality of Life Research Center and Research Assistant Professor, Peter F.
Drucker Graduate School of Management. She has worked on the GoodWork
Project since 1996. She is a coauthor of Creativity and Development (Oxford
University Press, 2003) and coeditor of Supportive Frameworks for Youth
Engagement (Jossey-Bass, 2001), and is coauthoring a book on mentoring and
the transmission of excellence in science.
on two projects: Trust and Trustworthiness in a Democratic Society, and Ethical
Perspectives on Young People's Use of the Digital Media. Her work focuses on
youth civic participation and its effects on political identity and trust in
government institutions, as well as general ethics and trends in the new digital
media. Lindsay graduated from Bowdoin College in 2002 with an AB in German
and Sociology and plans to pursue graduate studies in Political Science.
Margaret Rundle is a Research Assistant on the Trust and Trustworthiness
Project at Harvard Project Zero. Her research interests include factors affecting
work performance and happiness in the work place, decision making and
perceptions of decision making in the work place. Margaret previously taught
high school physics, worked in retail management and higher education
administration. She received a M.Ed. in Human Development and Psychology
from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2006.
Jennifer Oxman Ryan
Jennifer Oxman Ryan is a Research Assistant on the Trust and Trustworthiness
project at Harvard Project Zero. She is also currently the Arts Education Consultant
for the Maine Arts Commission and a Teaching Fellow in the Arts in Education
program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Prior to joining the Goodwork
team, she worked on PZ's research project, Qualities of Quality: Excellence in Arts
Education and How to Achieve it. Previous experience includes directing educational
programs at arts organizations, museum education, and working in arts education
policy and advocacy at local and state levels. Research interests include arts
education, professional development and teacher training in the arts, student
engagement, and community/school partnerships. Jennifer earned a B.A. in art
history from Mount Holyoke College and a M.Ed in Arts in Education from Harvard
Graduate School of Education.
Susan Verducci Sandford
Susan Verducci Sandford, Ph.D. (Stanford University) is a professor of Humanities
at San Jose State University. She has worked on the Good Work Project since 2000
and is coeditor of Taking Philanthropy Seriously and of the forthcoming Democracy,
Education and the Moral Life. Her fields of interest include educational philosophy,
philanthropy and moral development.
Margaret Weigel joins Project Zero as a researcher specializing in media forms
and practices working primarily on the GoodPlay project and on a evolving project
examining the intersection of new digital media and cognitive development. Prior to
PZ, Margaret was the Research Manager for MIT's New Media Literacies project, led
by Henry Jenkins, a designer of historically-themed ubiquitous games for a local
startup company, and a writer on media, art and culture for WBUR.com, one of
Boston's NPR affiliates. She earned her BA in Sociology at Brandeis and holds
advanced degrees in American history and comparative media studies.
