Region 16 Comprehensive Center

Research, writing, design, photography

Region 16 Comprehensive Center was one of 19 Regional Comprehensive Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education in 2019 to support state education agencies (SEAs) in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington. As a consortium of 29 educational service districts across these states, the Center partnered with communities across the region to build capacity in SEA-identified areas like literacy, Native education, and family and community engagement.

In the final year of the grant cycle, the U.S. Department of Education issued a call for impact stories that would showcase the breadth and depth of the Comprehensive Center program's capacity-building work.

Region 16 and I partnered with a research and consulting firm to create digital, interactive stories for Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, where users can explore the contexts, highlights, quotes, insights, and resources surrounding the Center's high-impact projects in each state.

At the end of Region 16's grant cycle, I designed PDF versions of each story to preserve these resources for the Comprehensive Center Network Archive.

I reached out to state directors, project managers, state education agencies, educational service district leaders, educators, and community members to tell the full story of each project's impact, gathering data, narratives, and testimonials to create multi-dimensional accounts of how Region 16 transformed education systems to better serve all students.