Dr. Sarah McGrew
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College of Education

Sarah McGrew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership in the College of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. She studies educational responses to the spread of online mis- and disinformation. Her research focuses on young people’s civic online reasoning—how they search for and evaluate online information on contentious social and political topics—and how schools can better support students to learn effective evaluation strategies.

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In collaboration with the Stanford History Education Group, Dr. McGrew developed assessments of students’ online reasoning, conducted research on fact checkers’ strategies for evaluating digital content, and tested curriculum designed to teach these strategies to secondary and college students. This research has been published in journals including Computers & Education, British Journal of Educational Psychology, Teachers College Record, and Theory and Research in Social Education. It also received coverage in outlets including the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Time, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. In addition to investigating online reasoning curricula in secondary and college classrooms, Dr. McGrew’s current research focuses on two related questions: how best to support teachers to learn online reasoning themselves and design lessons for students, and how to design lessons in online reasoning that are rooted in civic and community issues that students know and care about.

A former high school history teacher, Dr. McGrew is also interested in history/social studies teaching and learning. She studies connections between disciplinary and digital literacies in history classes and practice-based approaches to history/social studies teacher education.

Dr. McGrew earned a B.A. in Political Science and Education from Swarthmore College and an M.A. and teacher certification in the Stanford Teacher Education Program. She taught high school history in Washington, D.C. for five years before returning to Stanford to complete her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teacher Education.

Destiny Brown
Assistant Producer/Teaching Artist, Wide Angle Youth Media

Destiny Brown is a filmmaker, actress, and now teacher, born and raised in Baltimore, MD. She began at Wide Angle Youth Media three and a half years ago as the lead actress for a CSX train safety video being produced but continued to work with Wide Angle as an intern producer for over a year and a half before transitioning to the part-time staff at 16, becoming the youngest person to be promoted to part-time staff to date.

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Wide Angle Youth Media has allowed Destiny to grow an immense passion for filmmaking and social justice. With Wide Angle, she's created a national award-winning film, traveled to South Africa to film internationally, and has spoken on numerous panels including Light City and Grantmakers for Education. Destiny is currently a college sophomore at New York University where she primarily studies acting and psychology while working as a film generalist at NYU's Stern School of Business Video Studio. She is a Ron Brown Scholar, a Coca-Cola Scholar, a Bill Gates Scholar, a Collegebound Foundation Scholar, a Baltimore Ravens Scholar, a Taco Bell Live Más Scholar, a Delta Sigma Theta Scholar, an Omega Psi Phi Talent Scholar, a Ben Carson Scholar, and a Johns Hopkins CTY Scholar, which is how she built her own four-year full-ride scholarship to NYU. Although her main focus is in front of the camera, Destiny is incredibly passionate about teaching and giving back, using the insights she's learned to help the next generation.

Jennifer Sturge
Specialist for School Libraries and Digital Learning, Calvert County Public Schools

Jennifer Sturge (she/hers) is employed by Calvert County Public Schools. She has an undergraduate degree in education from Clarion University, a Master’s in School Library and Instructional Technology from Mansfield University, and is currently a doctoral student at Point Park University. She has been an educator for 27 years, and a proponent of both school and public libraries since she won the Calvert Library bookmark creation contest at the age of 7. Jennifer is a 2017-2018 Lilead Fellow, the Maryland Technology Leader of the Year for 2019, and is the 2020-2021 Maryland Association of School Librarians President. She currently is a blogger for Programming Librarian with colleague Donna Mignardi. She also blogs for Knowledge Quest on a regular basis. Jennifer is an adjunct lecturer at the iSchool for The University of Maryland College Park. She resides in Southern Maryland with her family. Connect with her on Twitter: @sturgej

Scott G. Buhrman
Content Specialist - Social Studies, Washington County Public Schools

Scott G. Buhrman is a content specialist for Washington County Public Schools in Hagerstown, MD. Previously, he served as an assistant principal and classroom teacher.

Anika Seth
Editor-in-Chief, Silver Chips (Montgomery Blair High School's editorially independent student newspaper)

Anika is a senior at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD and one of the current editors-in-chief of Blair's student newspaper, Silver Chips. As a reporting, Anika seeks to intentionally promote diversity through an anti-racist journalistic lens and works to amplify narratives from traditionally marginalized communities and individuals. Anika is passionate about the intersections between the social and physical sciences and hopes to pursue a career in health policy and medical technology regulations. Outside of journalism, she is actively involved in competitive robotics, competes in public forum debate, and is currently working on climate change research at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.