Allison Nofziger

Community-Academic Scholar: Allison Nofziger (she/her)

Project: Allison worked with Professor Kevin Tan, the Mahomet Area Youth Club, Mahomet-Seymour Community Schools, and Roots to Branches to conduct a needs assessment study focusing on social-emotional learning needs of youths and families of the low-resource and BIPOC communities as it relates to promoting equity and excellence. Learn more about the project.

Mentor reflection: "This program is about preparing the next generation of individuals who will be leaders in the community with work informed by research," said Prof. Tan. "Allison was able to experience working on research with my team of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. I hope she had insights into young people's social-emotional learning, particularly through understanding their identity, agency, and belonging and that she was able to understand how these can emerge among young people when she was running summer programs at the Mahomet Area Youth Club."