Staff
Alana Foley (Dulaney)
Statistician
Alana is a researcher and statistician on the Getting on Track Early for School Success project. She received her PhD in Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology from Boston College in 2014, and was a Postdoctoral Scholar in Susan Levine’s Cognitive Development Lab at The University of Chicago from 2014-2017. Her research centers on understanding the roles of executive functions, math anxiety, and socio-economic factors in children’s mathematical learning, as well as designing school- and home-based interventions to reduce socioeconomic inequality in children’s early mathematical learning opportunities.
Ella Sherman
Lab Manager
Ella graduated from Tulane University in 2025 with a B.A. in Sociology and Social Policy. While at Tulane, she served as a Research Assistant at the New Orleans Collaborative for Early Childhood Research, an intern for the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, and a teacher’s aide at Newcomb Children’s Center and other New Orleans preschools. She has previously worked with the University of Chicago as a Policy Research Intern at the Inclusive Economy Lab. Ella is interested in creating equitable early childhood experiences and researching methods for mediating the effects of poverty on children’s cognitive development and educational outcomes.
Raquel Buriani
Lab Manager
Raquel received her B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Chicago in 2025. Prior to the Levine Lab, she worked in the Development of Social Cognition (DSC) Lab from 2023 to 2025 as an undergraduate research assistant. Currently, she is working as a research assistant for the Active Playful Learning program.
Amma Bromley-Perry
Amma is a 2025 graduate from the University of Chicago, earning a BA in Psychology with honors, and a BA in Comparative Human Development. A recipient of the Marylyn C. Grabosky Thesis Prize in education, Amma researched the relationship between spatial skills and spatial language in math word problems with mentorship from Dr. Susan Levine and Dania Carr, a graduate student in the Levine lab.