Tricia George

Tricia is the Educational Director for Thinkalong at CT Public. She is currently finishing her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership at the University of Connecticut, and her research focuses on informal learning in libraries. Her undergraduate degrees include a B.A. in Community Organizing and an A.S. in Video Production. She was formerly the Director of YOUmedia and Teen Services at Hartford Public Library. With more than a dozen years of experience engaging youth and young adults in literacy, technology, and science learning, she’s developed a love for working beside teens to create spaces and programs that support their journey to a thriving adulthood, academically, civically, and socially. She holds giant research crushes on James Paul Gee and Mimi Ito, loves vegan chocolate ice cream, and aspires to grow vegetables like the world might end.

tgeorge@ctpublic.org