Adrienne Vitullo she/her
Learning Experience & Curriculum Designer
Brooklyn, NY
adrienne@redesignu.org
My Piece of the Puzzle
- Creative thinking about learning possibilities
- Keeping learners front and center
- Prioritizing team/community wellbeing
My Background
Adrienne has always been committed to deep learning, youth development, and systems change. She has developed these skills in her work in various educational settings – from HeadStart preschool to elementary reading intervention to transfer high schools, collective organizing to research think-tanks. In each of these experiences, she has become more deeply rooted in teaching practices focused on deep care and social emotional development of students, recognition and activism around systemic issues in society and schooling, and collaborative and individualized opportunities for powerful and exciting learning.
Young adult literacy is of particular interest and importance to Adrienne. Learning with and from adolescents as they develop as readers and thinkers, and creating opportunities for them to know themselves in this way, is a focus for Adrienne. In her doctoral research, Adrienne is thinking about adolescent subjectivities as readers and thinkers, and expanding thinking about recognized ways of being a reader in and of the world.
What Brings Me Joy in the World
When not deep in the throes of a creative project at reDesign, or reading and writing for her doctoral program, Adrienne is knitting up a new sweater, running with her dog, reading some new dystopian fiction, and planning her next travel experience.
What I’ve Been Inspired to Work On
Adrienne has been published in such journals as Children’s Literature in Education, and contributed to research teams presenting at the Literacy Research Association’s annual conference and the University of Pennsylvania’s Ethnography in Education Forum.
Learning Communities & Credentials
- BA in Anthropology from Bard College
- MA in Secondary English Education from the University of Connecticut
- [in progress] Doctorate in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University
From our reDesign community to yours, we look forward to connecting, co-designing, learning, and sharing with you.