Celine Thompson, Ph.D.
Senior Project Administrator
As a Senior Project Administrator for the Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs (WRI) at Rutgers–Camden, Celine serves as principal investigator for the Clayton Model Expansion and Evaluation, Camden Food Security Collective, and the Evaluation of the HHMI DEI in STEM projects. She also serves on the leadership team at WRI.
Prior to joining WRI, Celine worked as a project manager for a longitudinal study at the University of Virginia that studied the impact of the EL Education model on the development of social and emotional skills in middle school students. Celine has also served as an assistant professor of psychology at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she taught courses related to lifespan development and research methodology. She received her doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies of Human Development and a Master’s degree in Psychological Services from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.