Star Moore
At Burke's, Star serves on the Head Evaluation and Equity & Inclusion Committees.
Star Plaxton-Moore is Associate Director of Community Engaged Learning and Research at Stanford University's Haas Center for Public Service. In this role, Star leads CELR team to envision, implement, and assess some of the Haas Center’s signature programs and key strategic initiatives, including integrating public service and community engagement into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, supporting faculty development for community-engaged teaching and research, and strengthening the center’s place-based initiatives in education and sustainability. Star joined the Haas Center after 19 years at University of San Francisco where she was Director of Community-Engaged Learning. Star’s scholarship focuses on faculty development for community-engaged teaching and scholarship, student preparation for community engagement, intersections of feminism and community engagement, assessment of civic learning outcomes, and community engagement in institutional culture and practice. She has co-authored two books, The Student Companion to Community-Engaged Learning and The Craft of Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning, as well as multiple book chapters, articles, and book reviews. Star also consults with colleges and universities across the country on community-engaged faculty development, and with Bay Area independent K-8 schools on service-learning curriculum, principles, and practices. Prior to working in higher education, Star worked as an elementary school teacher in Virginia and California. She holds an EdD in organizational leadership from University of San Francisco and an MEd and BA from The George Washington University. Star lives in the Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco with her spouse and two kids.
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