Dr. Georgia Hall is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Institute on Out-of-School Time/Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College and has extensive experience as a researcher and evaluator of youth development and out-of-school time programs, practices, and professional development. Her work includes serving as Research Scientist on the Massachusetts Afterschool Research Study, which was a statewide research study of 78 afterschool programs in Massachusetts. Hall is currently the Principal Investigator and evaluator for Out-of-School in Outer Space with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA. This multi-year initiative provides science resources and training adapted for the unique needs of out-of-school time (OST) programs and professionals. Dr. Hall is also the Principal Investigator and Evaluator of BE SAFE which is a multi-year, collaborative, systems change youth prevention initiative managed by the AIDS Action Committee. Hall has developed trainings and workshops on identifying promising practices in afterschool and has played a lead role for 4 years in assisting New Jersey After 3 with their statewide Promising Practice Initiative. Hall is currently serving as Principal Investigator on a National Institutes of Health funded secondary analysis of the NICHD study data related to physical activity in out-of-school time, and is the Managing Editor of Afterschool Matters, a journal for out-of-school time practitioners, researchers, and other related professionals. Georgia is an enthusiastic youth soccer, basketball, and softball coach in her local community.
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