Dr. Erika D. Tate is the founder of Bluknowledge LLC, a learning firm that advances equity through the design and study of learning experiences in schools and communities. She launched Loravore^Ⓡ Learning by Bluknowledge to empower school and community educators to design and deliver effective learning experiences. For nearly 20 years, she has worked to advance education and community health through research, design, and evaluation. She has applied quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate evidence-based practices that support learning and health among children, youth, and adults, individually and as families and communities. Past community projects aimed to increase food access in under-resourced communities; engage parents in childhood obesity prevention, and increase the number of insured children in Savannah, Georgia. Formative research and evaluation for these projects have informed the organizations’ programming and policy recommendations on local and state levels.

In education, Dr. Tate has extensive experience designing and delivering K-16 professional development across the country. She specializes in training and instructional coaching for elementary and secondary teachers that center on instructional design, digital learning and STEM teaching and learning. She has consulted on several National Science Foundation grants to design and research technology-enhanced STEM learning experiences for classroom, after school, and community settings. Currently, she is an advisor to the Anti-Racism Interactive Science Education partnership at University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Tate is a highly-skilled and effective facilitator for both in-person and virtual settings. She has published and presented on topics related to STEM education, digital learning, and instruction and assessment design, including a book chapter on Designing Science Instruction for Diverse Learners. Dr. Tate earned her ScB in Electrical Engineering from Brown University and her PhD in Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology, from the University of California, Berkeley.