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get to know TREEL
Transformative Research, Evaluation, Education Equity, & Liberation
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About us
Transformative Research, LLC is an education research, evaluation, and consulting firm founded and powered by Dr. Leah Q. Peoples (she/her/hers), a cis-hetero Black American woman. Transformative Research focuses on using good data as a catalyst to liberating and equitable educational spaces. Oftentimes, data in research and evaluation can be used in harmful ways that further perpetuate institutional inequities and harm. Good data engages truth-telling, institutional and self discovery, intensive and rigorous study, and experimentation in an effort to aid the complex nature of transformation.​
Our guiding symbol is a cosmogram, inspired by the Schomberg cosmogram. Click here to learn more.
Meet
Leah Q. Peoples, Ph.D.
Dr. Peoples is an experienced researcher, evaluator, educator and collaborator. She's worked with numerous K-12 schools, universities, community colleges, non-profits, and grassroots organizations to help them use good data to inform their equity work.
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Additionally, Dr. Peoples works with other evaluators and researchers to build their team capacity. Read more about Dr. Peoples' experiences by clicking the button below. Interested in services? Please use the form on the contact us page to setup a time to chat.
Our definitions
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Our mission
Our mission is to create and co-create good data that can be used to transform educational spaces and institutions in ways that uplift, protect, and nurture the humanity, genius and spirit of BIPOC and other marginalized communities, including youth, adults, educators, organizers, and community members.
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good data
Useful, equity-oriented, critical, transformative and liberating data that can help educators, schools, communities, youth, parents, and the general public advance educational equity individually and within institutions (institution building).
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liberation
Liberation is imagining, creating, and sustaining a world that enables self-determination, dignity, joy, autonomy, interdependence, and well-being. It is intersectional, critical, and intentional. Liberation means fully recognizing the humanity of all while actively eradicating systems of oppression that reduce people to their bodies and perceived usefulness. Liberation is environmental stewardship, collective care, community building, and reciprocity -- ensuring that justice, freedom, and dignity are not just ideals but lived realities.
Get to know us
We invite you to get to know us and our work better! Ways that you can get to know us:
Check out our website. If it's your first time here, use the tabs at the top of the website to explore our three areas of work: research, evaluation, and learning.
Read our blog for our latest thoughts and commentary of transformative research, education, news, and new learning.
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