About Insight Edge

What We Do

The Insight Edge Apprenticeship in Applied Research has two main prongs, designed to work symbiotically, giving apprentices a powerful combination of mentorship, real-world experience, and connection to a professional network:

  1. Mentored Real-World Experience: Our apprentices receive guidance from our team of highly trained and senior-level researchers as they contribute to actual research and evaluation projects, most of which focus on postsecondary education and workforce development.
  2. Emerging Leaders Community of Practice: Our apprentices become participating members in the Insight Edge Community of Practice, which is comprised of both junior and senior researchers who meet periodically to engage in developing culturally responsive research practices in communities, nonprofit organizations, philanthropic entities, and government agencies.

Our goal is for our apprentices to emerge from our program with the skills, confidence, and professional network necessary for launching successful research careers.

Who We Are

Please meet our esteemed board of advisors:

Apriel K. Hodari

Apriel K Hodari, PhD, is Principal Investigator with Eureka Scientific, Inc, and represents the United States on International Union of Pure and Applied Physics’ (IUPAP) Working Group 5: Women in Physics (WG5). She is an expert in STEM education research, equity and workforce diversity, and the cultures of STEM disciplines. Her research on the cultures of STEM disciplines, explored through the lived experiences of successful women of color in STEM fields, focuses on how these women overcome barriers and how institutions can create environments in which they can thrive.

Apriel was lead author for a collection of white papers for the Community Engagement Frontier of Snowmass 2022, entitled How to Read the Snowmass White Papers on Power Dynamics in Physics, Informal Socialization in Physics Training, and Policing and Gatekeeping in STEM. Hodari serves as PI for Centering Women of Color in STEM: Data-Driven Opportunities for Inclusion (women-of-color-in-stem.org) and ADVANCE Partnership: Faculty Online Learning Communities for Gender Equity: Targeting Department Level Change in STEM (https://sites.google.com/view/equityfolc/). She was a 2016-17 Fulbright Scholar at Queen Mary, University of London, and the 2000-2001 Optical Society of America / International Society for Optics and Photonics Congressional Science Fellow. Her work has been featured in Science, and on Science Friday.

Emily Chatterjee

Emily Chatterjee is the Vice President of Advocacy of the IMPACT Project. Previously, Emily was senior counsel at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund. The Leadership Conference is the nation’s premier civil and human rights coalition, charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States. Emily also served as a legal expert for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Emily earned a Doctor of Law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and a BA in political science from Brown University.

Mina Kim

Mina currently serves as an economist for the U.S. Department of State and as a Research Associate for the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Previously, Mina was a Research Economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics for fourteen years.

Mina earned a PhD in Economics and a Masters in Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Zaneeta E. Daver

Zaneeta is a nonprofit executive with 20+ years of experience in higher education institutions, national associations, and social advocacy organizations. She has extensive experience in non-profit administration, program development, project management, and operations. Dedicated to working to build a more inclusive and equitable country, she is passionate about social justice and intercultural competency. 

Zaneeta most recently served as the Executive Vice President of Administration at Civic Nation. Previously she served as their COO, and before that as the Executive Director of their initiative, ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge.  You can learn more about Zaneeta by visiting her LinkedIn profile.