Principal Investigator

Brooke Moreland, PhD is a research scientist, systems engineer, and strategist with extensive experience in higher education, student affairs, narrative research incubation, and organizational operations. Her expertise spans project and relationship management, research development, and strategic systems design, with a passion for developing new ways of thinking and transforming innovative ideas into frameworks that simplify complexity, drive societal progress, and shape a better future. Her research interests include interrogating inequities in complex systems and using leadership capacity building as a vehicle for institutional sustainability.

Dr. Moreland has served regional, state, and national organizations, leading corporate partnerships and community-centered research initiatives. She developed the groundbreaking Strategy-Informed Workshop Incubation Model (SWIM), adopted by Cinereach, a media incubator advancing social impact content development. A strong advocate for representative storytelling, she engages leaders and communities using adult and sociocultural learning principles to deepen understanding of everyday phenomena.

A graduate of Butler University, Indiana University-Bloomington, Indiana Wesleyan University, and the Harvard University CAEL program, Brooke serves as Publications & Research Chair on the Board of the Peace & Justice Studies Association (PJSA), a bi-national organization housed at Georgetown University. She is principal investigator of Leading Social Change (www.leadingsocialchange.org/us), sponsor of the PJSA Virtual Scholar Series, and is listed in the U.S. Antarctic Scientists Directory (https://usscar.org/directory). Outside of work, she treasures time with family and friends, and enjoys reading, writing, traveling, and exploring topics like quantum physics and Antarctica.

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