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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ericka Weathers (2022 Fellow) and Kelly Harris (2022 Fellow) selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2030<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ericka Weathers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Division of Policy, Organizations, Leadership, and Systems<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Graduate School of Education<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">University of Pennsylvania</span></i><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kelly Harris<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Washington University in St. Louis</span></i><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Assistant Professors <a href="https://www.gse.upenn.edu/academics/faculty-directory/weathers">Ericka Weathers</a> and
<a href="https://www.ot.wustl.edu/about/our-people/kelly-harris-36">Kelly Harris</a> are two of the five early-career researchers who have been selected for the <a href="https://wtgrantfoundation.org/five-early-career-researchers-selected-for-the-william-t-grant-scholars-class-of-2030" target="_blank">new
class</a> of <a href="https://wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/william-t-grant-scholars-program" target="_blank">William T. Grant Scholars</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Launched in 1982, <a href="https://wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/william-t-grant-scholars-program">the Scholars Program</a> supports the professional development of promising
early-career researchers. To date, the program has sponsored more than 200 talented researchers.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Scholars will also have opportunities to further their research and professional development through annual retreats and workshops with fellow Scholars,
Foundation staff, and other senior researchers. For Weathers, whose Scholars project on institutional responses to truancy will stretch her knowledge of critical methods, “being exposed to more critical communities that can help inform my knowledge in this
area, working with my mentors, and having the William T. Grant Scholars network, [will] all be really helpful,” she said. “Having that network is going to be key, where I can not only receive support, but also be of support to a community of scholars who are
working to achieve similar goals [of] reducing racial inequality along different topic areas and research questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Recognizing that early-career researchers are rarely offered support to take measured risks in their work, the award also includes funding for mentorship
from experts in areas pertinent to Scholars’ development. “One of the most exciting components of this award, to me, is that [it] encourages the development of new relationships, strengthening newer relationships [and] deepening them,” said Harris, who will
receive guidance from her mentors Adam Wilcox at Washington University in St. Louis and Tamara Perry at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute. “This is an opportunity to work both with someone who is at my institution, who has this expertise
of informatics … [and] develop a relationship with someone outside of my institution who has wonderful expertise working with youth with asthma.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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