Meredith Wellman, PhD

Meredith Wellman, Ph.D., is a Program Manager at the Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center, which is housed within the Center on Education and Training for Employment at The Ohio State University. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Family Engagement Center Team. In her role, she manages and contributes to several projects supporting family engagement in education. She has developed content for a broad range of products, including online seminars, workshops, network meetings, conference presentations, e-newsletters, website resource posts, social media posts, surveys, and grants. She has presented to national, state, and local audiences about her work and the resources of the family engagement team. She is co-author of an implementation guide and professional learning series for educators called Partnerships for Literacy, which has been used in schools across the state of Ohio. Together with the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce and Ohio families, she has developed several information sheets for schools to communicate with families about dyslexia, the third grade reading guarantee, and more. She also collaborates with Graduate Research Assistants and faculty members. For example, she contributed to a literature review on family engagement in mental health, which resulted in a research brief and 1 page tip sheets for families. She is the lead content developer and manager of the Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center’s robust website that reaches 60,000 users annually.

Dr. Wellman has over 10 years of experience conducting program evaluations for education and health programs. She currently manages the internal evaluation efforts of the Family Engagement Center team. She received her doctorate in Community and Prevention Research from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016. She received her bachelor’s degree from Miami University in Ohio. Dr. Wellman lives in Westerville, OH with her husband and two children, and enjoys biking, hiking, and baking pies.