Associate Executive Director
ASSET Inc. (Achieving Student Success through Excellence in Teaching)Biracial, Coaching, Education, Educator, identity denial, learning loss, Professional Development, Stem, STEM and diversity, Teacher Training, Tutor, Tutoring
Dr. Deborah Luckett, Associate Executive Director of ASSET, Inc., has spent her career working with educators and students alike to empower meaningful growth, inclusiveness, and resiliency. Dr. Luckett has been in a leadership role at ASSET Inc. since 2007. She is a former classroom teacher whose honors include Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year, Milken Family Foundation National Educator, and the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) National Honor Roll Teacher. Dr. Luckett is a graduate of Westminster College (B.A.) and The Citadel (M.Ed. in Interdisciplinary STEM). Her doctoral work at Duquesne University focused on advocating for marginalized learners. Her dissertation title is Hidden Amongst People: Experiences of Black White Biracial Individuals with Microaggressions, Horizontal Hostilities and Identity Denial in Educational Settings. Dr. Luckett has experience teaching in urban and rural educational settings of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. Her contributions to ASSET include the Coaching and Resources for Educators (CaRES) and Partnerships for Advancing Learning in STEM (PALS) programs as well as professional learning for pre-service and in service educators.
Senior Lecturer in Performance Psychology and Management
Loughborough UniversityCoaching, Leadership, Sports Performance
David is a world leading sports psychologist, also specialising in performance management, executive coaching, and sport business. David also works closely with organizations on creating environments and cultures that enable high performance, including UK Sport, British Olympic Association, British Swimming, British Triathlon, and the NHS. He is regularly on British national television and radio.
Coaching, Psycholgy, Sport
Dr. Lori Gano-Overway’s research interest is in exploring how the social-psychological climate and coaching practices can be structured to provide positive experiences for young people and foster positive youth development. Additionally, she explores how to create coach education and coach development programs to improve coach learning.
Gano-Overway is a co-author of the book, "A Coach's Guide to Maximizing the Youth Sport Experience: Work Hard, Be Kind," published by Routledge in 2019.
Gano-Overway earned her bachelor's degree at Hope College, her master's degree at Purdue University and her doctorate at Michigan State University.