Dr. Bonnie Cramond
Bonnie Cramond, Ph.D., is a professor of Educational Psychology in the Gifted and Creative Education emphasis area and the Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children, editor of the Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, and a schoolteacher. She is on the review board for several journals and is a survivor of parenting two gifted and creative people. She is particularly interested in the identification and nurturance of creativity, especially among individuals considered at risk because of their different way of thinking, such as those misdiagnosed with ADHD, emotional problems, or those who drop out.
Dr. Meg Hines
Meg Easom Hines, Ph.D. is an Academic Professional and the Coordinator of GCTWeb Online Programs in the Gifted and Creative Education Program at the University of Georgia. She has worked with the GCE faculty for the last ten years as an online instructor and prior to that, served as an adjunct instructor at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, SC. She has been a teacher of the gifted at the elementary level in several Georgia districts and Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Hines was the recipient of the 2003 NAGC Doctoral Student Award and was most recently selected to the Innovation in Teaching and Technology Faculty Academy in the College of Education at UGA. Her research interests center around professional development for teachers and how professional development influences the curriculum and instruction they design for high ability students. Her professional joy is to work with teachers as they deepen their understanding about gifted and creative learners.
Dr. Tarek Grantham
Dr. Tarek C. Grantham is an associate professor who teaches in the Gifted and Creative Education Program (GCE), primarily in the Diversity and Equity Strand. Dr. Grantham’s research addresses the problem of under-representation among ethnic minority students, particularly Black males, in advanced programs. He has co-edited two books: Gifted and Advanced Black Students in School: An Anthology of Critical Works (2011), and Young, Triumphant, and Black: Overcoming the Tyranny of Segregated Minds in Desegregated Schools (2013). Dr. Grantham serves as the Convention Program Chair for the Special Populations Network of the National Association for Gifted Children and as a Board member for the Council for Exceptional Children, The Association for the Gifted Division. Dr. Grantham has been awarded the 2012 Mary M. Frasier Excellence and Equity Award by the Georgia Association for Gifted Children for outstanding achievement in practices that promote equitable identification procedures and/or provision of high-quality services to gifted students from under-represented groups. He is the fortunate husband of a wonderful wife, Dr. Kimberly D. Grantham, marketing professor at UGA, and the proud father of three children: Kurali, Copeland, and Jovi.
Dr. Mark Runco
Mark Runco is currently the E. Paul Torrance Professor of Creativity Studies at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. He earned his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the Claremont Graduate School, CA, USA, and has studied creativity ever since then. Dr. Runco has published approximately 200 articles, chapters, and books. Dr. Runco is the Founding Editor of the Creativity Research Journal and co-edited the Encyclopedia of Creativity in 1999 and 2011. His textbook Creativity: Theories, themes, and issues (Academic Press, 2010) has been translated into six languages. His new book The New Science of Creativity is due out in 2013. Dr. Runco is a Past President of Division 10 (Psychology, Art, Creativity, and Aesthetics) of the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Sally Krisel
Sally Krisel, a part-time faculty member in the Gifted & Creative Studies Program, is the Director of Innovative and Advanced Programs for Hall County Schools, Gainesville, GA, where she promotes engagement and achievement for all students by increasing high-level programming options for gifted students and extending as appropriate the strategies once thought to be the exclusive domain of gifted education to a much larger group of learners. Dr. Krisel served for ten years as Georgia’s State Director of Gifted Education. A member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), Krisel is author of numerous book chapters and articles, and she has been recognized by UGA’s College of Education and NAGC for her contributions related to equity in the field. In 2004 Krisel was named the winner of the UGA College of Education Professional Achievement Alumni Award and NAGC’s Community Service Award.
Dr. Katherine Brown
Katherine B. Brown is an adjunct faculty member in the Gifted and Creative Education program. Her teaching and research interests focus on the learning opportunities for gifted students in the regular education classroom, specifically related to differentiation, process skill development, and problem-based learning. In addition to teaching courses at the University of Georgia, Katherine is the enrichment specialist at Judia Jackson Harris Elementary Charter School in Athens, Georgia where she leads the implementation of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model.