Marc Wheeler is a practitioner with 13 years of experience in public service, including 8 years of leadership at Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS). Mr. Wheeler is currently one of a select number of BBBS executives working on an initiative to enhance BBBS of America’s national model for school-based mentoring programs. Mr. Wheeler wants to develop his ability to recognize, understand, and use youth mentoring research, with a focus on school-based mentoring. He will use this award to work with Thomas Keller, an influential mentoring researcher, at Portland State University. Mr. Wheeler will also take research classes at the University, and will work with collected data to co-author an empirical paper on issues related to school-based mentoring. Finally, he will work with David DuBois and Keller to write a guidebook for BBBS and other youth mentoring agencies on current mentoring research and research principles and how they relate to programming. He hopes that this fellowship will allow him to help other mentoring practitioners incorporate research into their work.
Mr. Wheeler wants to develop his ability to recognize, understand, and use youth mentoring research, with a focus on school-based mentoring. He will use this award to work with Thomas Keller, an influential mentoring researcher, at Portland State University.
