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Gabriele Strohschen
Dr.
Gabriele Strohschen
is Professor Emerita and a Frédéric Ozanam Fellow at DePaul University. She holds an EdD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Northen Illinois University along with numerous certifications (e.g., Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, Langevin Learning Services, the Kentucky Department of Education, the State of New York, Literacy Volunteers of America, and United Way). She served as inaugural director of the online graduate program in adult education at National Louis University and as director for graduate programs at DPU’s School for New Learning in Chicago and Thailand. She taught life skills for adults at the Center for Disabled Student Services with the Chicago City Colleges; graduate courses at the Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations of Northern Illinois University; and taught in the cohort-based Adult, Continuing & Literacy Education doctoral program and the interdisciplinary, field-based baccalaureate program in the College of Arts and Sciences at National-Louis University. Consulting with the Mayor’s Office of Employment and Training, she developed an award-winning workforce education program within a public-private sector partnership. As Visiting Professor, she taught at universities in China, Germany, Kenya, Mexico, and Thailand. In Japan, India, and the USA, she supported dissertation development for doctoral students. For two decades, her action research, faculty training, and program development and evaluation activities are centered in China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Kenya, Mexico, Thailand, and the USA. Based on her work, she presented and published nationally and internationally. During the US occupation, she consulted with UNESCO and the Afghan Ministry of Education to evaluate education programs for women onsite in several locations in Afghanistan. She served as board member and president of professional adult education associations. Locally over the years, she was engaged as a member of the Education Taskforce of Cook County Commissioner Deere and the Chicago Public School Region 1 Community Action Council, as well as on many grass-roots and not-for-profit boards of directors, co-creating education programs for youth and adults. Prior to working in academia, she was a community organizer, resource developer, and director of youth and adult education and workforce development programs in CBOs in Chicago’s Latino immigrant and Black neighborhoods for which she received the Outstanding Educator Award from US Congressman Danny K. Davis, Chicago. After retirement, she returned to her work in community activism, currently working on several civic projects addressing immigration, education, poverty, and property tax issues.
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