Who We Are Staff

Louise has successfully led growth organizations that make and deliver engaging educational technology. Most recently, she was the Managing Director of Digital Learning at WGBH. At WGBH, Louise helped launch PBS LearningMedia, a platform reaching over 1.5 million educators. Previously, Louise served as President of Pangea Tools, an educational software start-up successfully acquired by Houghton Mifflin. As President of Soliloquy Learning, Louise structured the sale of the company to Scientific Learning where she served as Vice President and General Manager of Speech Products.

Louise began her career as an attorney in Montreal, Canada, and holds a law degree from McGill University, as well as an MBA from Yale University. Louise has been recognized as a Draper, Richards, Kaplan Social Entrepreneur. During her tenure, iCivics won the MacArthur Foundation’s Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

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Healy makes regular appearances as a guest speaker and panelist at academic and professional development conferences across the country, is a frequent contributor to local and national media, and produces original scholarship in the area of political participation and civic education. Healy also serves as an adjunct professor in Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a Serve Illinois Commissioner.

Before joining iCivics, Healy worked for fifteen years at the Robert R. McCormick Foundation in various capacities, most recently serving as Democracy Program Director. He began his career as a social studies teacher at West Chicago Community High School (IL) and Sheboygan North High School (WI). A 2001 James Madison Fellow from the State of Wisconsin, he holds a MA and PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in political science and earned a bachelor’s degree with distinction in Political Science, History and Secondary Education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His dissertation is titled “Essential School Supports for Civic Learning.”

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Lisa currently serves as an advisory council member for the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) and is a national law fellow in the the Culture of Health Leaders Institute for Racial Healing. In past years, Lisa served as a steering committee member of Missouri Child Advocacy Day, hosted by the Alliance for Children and Families. Lisa got her start in policy as a lived-experience advocate for foster care policy issues at the state and federal level.

Ms. Boudreau holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy Administration and is a resident of St. Louis, Missouri.

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Prior to this role, Ace held a number of policy, research, and school-based positions including as Director of Innovation at the National Center for Learning Disabilities, Director of Deeper Learning at the National Association of State Boards of Education, and Director of Policy at the National Service-Learning Partnership.  Other organizational stops on that journey included equity-focused work at the Alliance for Excellent Education, Policy Analysis for California Education, and Fair Oaks Community School in Redwood City, California.

Ace’s civics journey began when he and his family immigrated to the US from Iran when he was eight. His own experience as an English language learner and free and reduced price lunch student led him towards a passion for utilizing education as a driver for greater equity and inclusion.   He holds a Masters in Public Policy Degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is a proud resident of Morgantown, West Virginia where he resides with his wife, Clare, and daughter, Ella.

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During his tenure at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Dave led the revision of the Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework, working closely with state educators, scholars and others to ensure a clear focus on civic education across the grades while also challenging students to deepen their understanding of history and social studies. In his role as the agency lead on state initiatives to support civic engagement and learning, Dave worked with educators, representatives from professional organizations and legislators to develop the first state Civic Learning and Engagement Strategic Plan and directed the first and second annual Civics Literacy Conferences to showcase effective practices in civics education.

During his career at the state level, Dave also led projects related to supporting teaching and learning in English language arts and literacy and founded the Writing Standards in Action Project, a widely-recognized state project to support writing instruction with samples of high quality student writing. He also served as the long-time manager of the Massachusetts Urban Literacy Leaders Network.

Dave holds a Master’s in Education from UMass-Boston and a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Middlebury College. All of his work is rooted in his experience over more than 15 years as a teacher of high school history and ESL in a variety of settings with many different populations, including English Learners and learning-disabled students.Dave’s enjoys spending time with his wife Jill and their two children, Ian and Cara, as well as pursuing his interest in writing, running, bicycling and sailing.

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Abbie earned her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Psychology from George Washington University. A proud native Bostonian, Abbie resides in the District where she enjoys playing tourist, cheering on her New England sports teams, taking part in her synagogue’s young professionals network, and petting every dog she sees.

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Prior to joining iCivics in January 2024, she served as the Director of Outreach and Grassroots for a U.S. Senator’s re-election campaign, an Advance Associate in the office of the Vice President, and worked as a Senior Advisor in the Office of International and Tribal Affairs at the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Diana currently resides in Utah and spends her free time traveling, gardening, reading, or in the great outdoors with her pup, Libby.

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Previously, Dr. Pruitt worked as the Youth, Opportunity, and Education researcher with Policy Matters Ohio and served as a 2023-2024 Fellow with the Educational Policy Leadership Fellows program through the Center for Educational Leadership at Cleveland State University. Tanisha also served on the leadership committee of the Ohio Workforce Commission, was a 2022 New American Leadership (NALA) fellow with the Columbus City office of the Mayor and Department of Neighborhoods, where she worked on civic engagement and advocacy on local issues plaguing the city of Columbus and its residents, and as Pre-doctoral research fellow at Educational Testing Services (ETS) in Princeton, NJ. Most notably, Dr. Pruitt was a member of the inaugural class of the Louisiana Governor Fellowship program working with the Governor and state agencies on education workforce training implementation, sustainability, and development.

Dr. Pruitt has an extensive research portfolio from journal publications, such as her one of the Economic Effects of Poverty on Academic Achievement among Black males in the US: The Black Boy Dilemma in the Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education. She has also published numerous research reports and blogs, press statements, and Op-Eds for the Columbus Dispatch.  She has also provided testimonies to legislators and advocated at the statehouse for a quality Ohio for our youth and given a multitude of research presentations across the country. She is dedicated to ensuring that all people regardless of what they look like or where they live both nationally and in Ohio have the tools and resources they need to thrive.

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Prior to joining the team, Andrea recently earned her MBA and Master of Public Policy from the University of New Mexico, after earning her Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management. In New Mexico, she did work for a congressional office, a graduate student association, Project ECHO, and other policy related efforts for environmental causes. She was also an NCAA athlete for UNM’s track and field team.

Andrea is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, but is from a suburb just outside of Philadelphia. She is passionate about efficient governance and providing a seat for all backgrounds at the table of that conversation. Since her parents immigrated to the US from Peru, she is a first-generational student and advocate in these policy conversations. In her free time, she enjoys painting, cooking vegan food, and being an advocate in the issues she is passionate about.

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