Vanessa Lujan, Ph.D.

Vanessa Lujan, Ph.D. is deputy director of the Learning and Teaching Group at the Lawrence Hall of Science, which offers professional learning support to leaders and educators in districts, schools, museums, universities, and other educational organizations and nonprofits. Dr. Lujan is also program director of BaySci, and lead author of the LCAP Toolkit for Science and Environmental Literacy, which helps California school districts and county offices of education better understand how to support science and environmental literacy in classrooms, and how to include these core aspects of education into local plans and budgets.