Meet Our Team

SHARON R. GOLDMAN, EdD

My long career in education has evolved into a passion for building educational programs to address the very diverse needs of students in public schools. My experience ranges from teacher to school administrator to professional developer and researcher, and for the past decade I have dedicated myself to exploring programs to address the needs of specialized populations. I currently work with school districts to evaluate pedagogy and practice for English learners, economically and academically challenged, as well as giftedness and its identification within minority groups. Collaboration with schools, districts, and states to develop research studies to assess the overall impact of their pedagogical approaches to meeting the needs of these populations. We are also developing a non-profit team to design a framework for an accredited dual language certification program to supply dual certified teacher pipelines for diverse states. My business goals are to develop systems that eliminate barriers for all students in the US and support bilingualism so that students can develop the skills to be competitive anywhere in the world.

Dr. Barbara Kennedy

Co-author of the Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education, 3rd Edition (2018), is the founder of GlobaLingo Education Consulting, LLC. A multilingual educator and advocate for equity over the past thirty years, BK has served as a teacher of world languages and bilingual education, district administrator, national consultant, and state director. Fluent in English, German, and Spanish, BK has conducted research on the bilingual teacher shortage in US K-12 schools. She devotes her everyday energies to supporting dual language educators in equity-focused program design, redesign, and evaluation, as well as through professional development. Contact BK at globalingoed@gmail.com.

Marcy Voss

Marcy Voss is an Educational Consultant who has recently retired after 36 years in public education. During her career, Marcy taught elementary and middle school students, as well as coordinated Gifted and Special Programs in several districts. As Special Programs Coordinator for Boerne ISD, Marcy helped develop and implement their Two-Way Dual Language Program.

Marcy currently serves as an ELL Coach, curriculum writer, and staff development trainer with Seidlitz Education. Marcy has a B.S. in Elementary Education from the University of Texas at Austin, a M.Ed. in Educational Psychology with a Specialization in Gifted Education from Texas A&M University at College Station, and a Mid-Management certification from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Emily G. Nichols, B.S.

Project & Data Coordinator

Emily graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2015 with a BA in Psychology. She has spent the past nine years coordinating research projects at both UNCCH and the UNC Cancer Hospital, and has been involved in project and data management with CITA Education since 2019. She has continued her professional development in both education and health, and is currently pursuing her master’s degree. Her amazing contributions to the company have allowed us to grow in a multitude of ways.

Dr. Chelsea Carlson

 After completing her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018, Dr. Carlson was a psychometrician for an alternate academic assessment system for students with significant cognitive disabilities. Prior to that, she was a research assistant for the program evaluation team of the Meyerhoff Adaptation Project at UNC, which aimed to improve inclusivity within the STEM academy at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She also worked on the ECERS Evaluation Study at Frank Porter Graham as an assistant to the lead statistician, evaluating early childcare quality measures. At heart, she is a methodologist concerned with ensuring robust and high quality quantitative and qualitative research design, measurement and analysis across many topic areas, but her experience has generally been in education, program evaluation, and psychometrics.

Kathleen Brown, EdD

Kathleen Brown is a Professor of Educational Leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill, and has over 25 years of teaching and administrative experience having served as a middle school teacher and elementary and middle school principal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey. Dr. Brown’s research interests include social justice and equity, diversity and cross-cultural understanding, and principal preparation programs.

DR. JOSE CARDOZA

Jose A. Cardoza, Ed. D. is an administrator at an urban high school in North Carolina and taught ESL for over 20 years. Throughout his 23-year career, he has taught elementary, middle, and adult English learners (ELLs), as well as held various leadership roles. As a former English learner himself and now current practitioner, he is aware of challenges ELLs face in public schools. Since he is passionate about working on possible solutions to help these students, his research interests include bilingual education, social justice, and educational leadership. Jose received his Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.