Alice Ginsberg, Ph.D.

Alice Ginsberg is an education and gender equity consultant whose recent client list includes The Caroline and Sigmund Schott Foundation (Cambridge, MA) and The Ms. Foundation for Women (New York, NY). From 1990-1998 she was a program officer at the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, where she developed and directed the GATE (Gender Awareness Through Education) program - a three-year professional development program in the School District of Philadelphia. Ginsberg holds a B.A. in women's studies from Temple University and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, When Policymakers and Practitioners Partner: A Stakeholder Analysis of an Urban School Reform Program, explored the process and politics of a (gender-based) school reform initiative from the diverse perspectives of the teachers, administrators, school district officials, parents, students, academic facilitators, program developers, and funding agencies involved. In addition to her other publications in journals such as Teaching and Learning, Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), Women's Studies Quarterly, Lilith, New Directions for Women, and The Temple Review, she is the first co-author of Gender in Urban Education: Strategies for Student Achievement (Heinemann, 2004), and is currently collaborating on an anthology of writings on gender and educational philanthropy. She can be reached at aliceginsberg@yahoo.com.