麻豆传媒

The National SEED Project (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) partners with schools, organizations, and communities to develop leaders who guide their peers in conversational communities to drive personal, organizational, and societal change toward social justice. As co-director of the National SEED Project, Gail Cruise-Roberson supports New York City-area educators and community leaders who run their own year-long, school-based SEED seminars in order to drive social change.
 
Throughout her career, Cruise-Roberson has worked in public education reform and adult education in New York City, Newark, NJ, and Chicago, Il. In 1999, Cruise-Roberson began working to train diversity facilitators -- teachers as well as high school students and parents -- to lead their own year-long seminars with the Minnesota Inclusiveness Project. In 2008, she joined the staff at the National SEED Project and co-facilitated SEED seminars in California. 

She has a B.A. in English and graduate work in communications from Queens College (CUNY), with a focus on small group communication.

Coates teaches in the area of adult education/human resource development. Her research focuses on using phenomenology to understand the meaning of work among individuals in the workplace across a variation of industries, jobs and organizations. The purpose of this research is to understand people's perception of work including: why they work, their experiences of work, what work means to them and what they intend on accomplishing by working. This level of understanding can help us improve both the experience of the workplace for employees and performance at the individual, group, process and organizational levels. Coates has developed an organizational development tool based on approaching the meaning of work phenomenon from a system's perspective. This tool can be utilized at a strategic level to help inform decision-making within an organization. Coates's most recent research was conducted with Generation Y employees for the purpose of hearing their voices in understanding their perceptions of work. 
Coates earned her bachelor's in psychology from Virginia Tech, master's in industrial organizational psychology from Baruch College (CUNY), and a doctorate in organization performance and change from Colorado State University.