senior Education Researcher, SRI Education
Hannah Cheever conducts research and provides technical assistance for projects across several content areas and policy contexts. Cheever manages multiple projects, creating systems to ensure high-quality, timely, and relevant services that meet client and stakeholder needs.
Cheever’s current projects include the Regional Educational Laboratory: Appalachia (REL Appalachia), the Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative (the Collaborative), and the Handle with Care (HWC) Implementation grant in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS). On REL Appalachia, Cheever serves as a deputy partnership lead for the Trauma-Informed Schools partnership in Kentucky. In this role, Cheever designs partnership activities, including training and coaching sessions, and develops materials aligned to stakeholder and partner needs. Also for REL Appalachia, Cheever serves a project co-lead for the Resilience, Equity, and Learning in Community Colleges project with Virginia Community College System (VCCS), working closely with partners to develop resources to promote trauma-sensitive practices throughout VCCS. Cheever serves as the Center Manager for the Collaborative and also supports leadership, capacity-building, and engagement activities. For HWC, Cheever leads the task to train district and school staff on evidence-based trauma-sensitive practices to improve school teams and staff use these practices in a racially and culturally diverse city in MNPS.
Prior to joining SRI, Cheever worked as a policy analyst at the National Center for Education and the Economy and as a data coordinator for Urban Teachers.
Cheever holds an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a BA from Davidson College.
