Brown University's Department of Education is pleased to welcome Katie Rieser, who has joined the faculty as Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching program and a Senior Lecturer in Education. Before coming to Brown, she was a lecturer in English Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She spent the first decade of her career as a middle and high school teacher and dean of curriculum in Cambridge, MA. Her research connects teacher education pedagogy with anti-racist best practices in K-12 schools.

Katie received her A.B. in English from Harvard University and her Master’s in urban education policy from Brown. She is a Ph.D. student in the Teacher Education and School Improvement program at UMass Amherst.