DaNel Hogan

Founder, Braided STEM; Director of Education, Children’s Museum Tucson

2015 Education Award Winner

DaNel Hogan is a seasoned science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educator. She founded Braided STEM, where she provides services in professional development, curriculum development, facilitation, coaching, and mentoring around systems thinking and STEM education, both separately and braided together. Hogan is also the Director of Education at the Children’s Museum Tucson, where she oversees the education arm of the museum in support of its mission and vision.

Most recently, Hogan was the Chief Learning Officer, then Chief Innovation Officer, for Waters Center for Systems Thinking. There, she helped teachers, leaders, and organizations learn the Habits and tools of systems thinking so they could make system-level change with lasting impacts. Hogan was also the Director of The STEMAZing Project for the Pima County School Superintendent’s Office in Tucson, Arizona. In this role, she provided professional development opportunities to pre-K–12th-grade educators, designed and facilitated the STEMAZing Teacher Leader Program, and participated in myriad STEM outreach events in southern Arizona. She led multiple professional development workshops to ensure educators, and ultimately students, were more science-literate. Before joining The STEMAZing Project, Hogan was an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, DC. While in DC, she was involved in national-level STEM issues and particularly focused on K-Gray Energy Literacy. To these roles, Hogan brings nine years’ experience as a classroom physics teacher. Her commitment to having a positive impact on STEM education has taken her to Egypt and Liberia in Africa, Honduras in Central America, Oman in the Middle East, and Kazakhstan in Central Asia to provide professional development for her educator colleagues there.

Hogan earned her MA in Teaching from Southern Oregon University and her BS in Physics from Coe College.