Karen Pierce

Dr. Karen Pierce joined the Dr. Elba and Domingo Garcia West Dallas STEM School team in the summer of 2021 and serves as the Project Manager.  Karen earned her B.A. in Biology and completed her M.Ed. in secondary teaching at Austin College. Karen began working in the field of education as a secondary biomedical science and chemistry teacher in New Mexico. She worked at a large public high school, helped open a new public high school, and eventually joined a project-based STEM public charter as the lead biomedical science project manager. Karen then completed her Ed.D. in Higher Education at SMU while working as a graduate research assistant at Research in Mathematics Education on the STEM Academy project.