Meet The Green Mountain FASD Project
Team Members and Consultants
SUSAN RYAN, Project Director and Executive Director @UVM/CDCI
Email: Susan Ryan, Ph.D
Address: : University of Vermont, CDCI, 208 Colchester Ave, Mann Hall 3rd Floor, Burlington, VT 05405
Phone: (802) 656-1143
Fax: (802) 656-1357
Bio: Susan M. Ryan, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Center on Disability and Community Inclusion and a Professor of Special Education within the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont. Dr. Ryan completed her doctoral degree in early intervention and special education from the University of Oregon and received a Fulbright Research Award at the National Institute on Intellectual Disabilities, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. From 1991-2006 Dr. Ryan was a Professor of Early Intervention and Special Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Between 1998-2004 Dr. Ryan served as an external evaluator on a FASD research project funded by the Center on Disease Control, and she was awarded the Alaska Office of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. During that time Dr. Ryan worked directly with children with FASD and their families. Dr. Ryan has experience working in third world countries as well as, writing grants, conducting research, providing technical assistance and personnel preparation. Dr. Ryan's research interests including FASD, inclusion, and rural service delivery.
JEANNE NAUHEIMER, Executive Assistant and Local Outreach
Email: Jeanne Nauheimer
Address: University of Vermont, CDCI, 208 Colchester Ave, Mann Hall 3rd Floor, Burlington, VT 05405
Phone: (802) 656-1141
Fax: (802) 656-1357
Bio: Jeanne serves as an assistant to Susan Ryan, the Executive Director at the Center on Disability and Community Inclusion. Her responsibilities include event organizing, research, outreach for Think College Vermont @UVM/CDCI, and other administrative duties. Jeanne graduated from Saint Michael's College in 2009 with a degree in English and concentration in Secondary Education. She is currently pursuing her Master's in English at the University of Vermont. Ms. Nauheimer is developing an FASD outreach and training program for Vermont youth, which she will begin presenting this Fall. Additionally, Ms. Nauheimer has begun working alongside Dr. Ryan on a number of FASD publications.
KIERSTEN HALLQUIST, Web Developer and Local Outreach Support
Email: Kiersten Hallquist
Address: University of Vermont, CDCI, 208 Colchester Ave, Mann Hall 3rd Floor, Burlington, VT 05405
Phone: (802) 656-1126
Fax: (802) 656-1357
Bio: Kiersten Hallquist is the TPSID the Think College Vermont @UVM/CDCI Program Manager. Prior to working at UVM, Kiersten worked for the Dartmouth Volunteer
Teaching Program and the Bikinian Local Government as an elementary school ESL
and Science teacher in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. She graduated
magna cum laude from Dartmouth College where she received her bachelor’s degree in environmental studies. She currently supports the FASD Project web design, and will co-present an FASD outreach and training program with Ms. Nauheimer this fall.
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