Michael Shapiro is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at Georgia State University and has been teaching at the university level for nearly 20 years. Shapiro is also the Coordinator of the Undergraduate Internship Program. He chairs the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology’s Awards and Scholarships Committee and serves on the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology’s Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. At the college and university levels, he serves on the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Academic Program Committee and the Fiscal Year 2021 Georgia State University Innovations Fund Voting Committee. He is a recipient of a Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Faculty Fellowship to support the College-to-Career initiative and was the recipient of the 2015 Andrew Young School of Policy Studies’ Excellence in Teaching Award as well as the 2019 Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Outstanding Faculty Partner Award. Finally, he serves as Faculty Adviser to the Pre-Law Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, the international legal fraternity.

Marissa Rhea Dahari completed both her B.Sc and M.Sc at the University of Guelph. Her thesis research focused on genetically altered proteins of the human heart, leading to disease states such as cardiomyopathy. Dahari, M. and Dawson, J. Do cardiac actin mutations lead to altered actomyosin interactions? Biochem. Cell Bio. 93 (4), 330-334 (2015).

After completing her Master’s Degree in 2012 she was hired at the University of Guelph in the College of Biological Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Since working as an undergraduate teacher, Marissa has had the opportunity to instruct many courses including Introductory Biology, Human Genetics and Developmental Biology. She has also sat on a variety of undergraduate committees related to undergraduate teaching and curriculum development and is actively involved in equity and diversity initiatives.

Marissa extended her love for teaching outside campus and also taught group exercise classes at Goodlife fitness from 2014-2020. When Marissa is not engaged with her teaching roles, she is kept busy by her Australian Shepherd and her two little ones.

Dr. Scott Cohn is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Western Colorado University in Gunnison, CO. Teaching primarily in person, Dr. Cohn's migration to online assessment over the past decade has been motivated by the desire to spend more time in class teaching rather than assessing. In the past two years, Dr. Cohn has led several conference workshops and presentations on the development of highly-accurate assessment items that objectively measure Psychology's skills-based curriculum. Currently Dr. Cohn is the Program Assessment Lead for Scientific American: Psychology, where he assists the authors in their development of an assessment program that is accessible to both students and faculty.

Michael Shapiro is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology at Georgia State University and has been teaching at the university level for nearly 20 years. Shapiro is also the Coordinator of the Undergraduate Internship Program. He chairs the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology’s Awards and Scholarships Committee and serves on the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology’s Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. At the college and university levels, he serves on the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Academic Program Committee and the Fiscal Year 2021 Georgia State University Innovations Fund Voting Committee. He is a recipient of a Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Faculty Fellowship to support the College-to-Career initiative and was the recipient of the 2015 Andrew Young School of Policy Studies’ Excellence in Teaching Award as well as the 2019 Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Outstanding Faculty Partner Award. Finally, he serves as Faculty Adviser to the Pre-Law Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, the international legal fraternity.

Marissa Rhea Dahari completed both her B.Sc and M.Sc at the University of Guelph. Her thesis research focused on genetically altered proteins of the human heart, leading to disease states such as cardiomyopathy. Dahari, M. and Dawson, J. Do cardiac actin mutations lead to altered actomyosin interactions? Biochem. Cell Bio. 93 (4), 330-334 (2015).

After completing her Master’s Degree in 2012 she was hired at the University of Guelph in the College of Biological Sciences, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Since working as an undergraduate teacher, Marissa has had the opportunity to instruct many courses including Introductory Biology, Human Genetics and Developmental Biology. She has also sat on a variety of undergraduate committees related to undergraduate teaching and curriculum development and is actively involved in equity and diversity initiatives.

Marissa extended her love for teaching outside campus and also taught group exercise classes at Goodlife fitness from 2014-2020. When Marissa is not engaged with her teaching roles, she is kept busy by her Australian Shepherd and her two little ones.

Dr. Scott Cohn is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Western Colorado University in Gunnison, CO. Teaching primarily in person, Dr. Cohn's migration to online assessment over the past decade has been motivated by the desire to spend more time in class teaching rather than assessing. In the past two years, Dr. Cohn has led several conference workshops and presentations on the development of highly-accurate assessment items that objectively measure Psychology's skills-based curriculum. Currently Dr. Cohn is the Program Assessment Lead for Scientific American: Psychology, where he assists the authors in their development of an assessment program that is accessible to both students and faculty.