Renee Gibert
Student Experience Director, Civil and Construction Engineering
Curriculum Studies,
Curriculum and Instruction
About
Renee holds a B.S. Industrial Engineering and a M.A.T in Middle Grades Mathematics Education from Clemson University. Renee taught mathematics in grades 6-12 for 16 years. She is currently a Curriculum Studies PhD candidate at Purdue West Lafayette. Her research interest lies in the implementation of culturally relevant pedagogies within informal STEM out of school time counterspaces. She is the Student Experience Director in the Lyles School Of Civil and Construction Engineering.
Education
- B.S. – Industrial Engineering, Clemson University
- M.A.T – Middle Grades Mathematics Education, Clemson University
Awards & Honors
- 2025 Annual Graduate Student Education Research Symposium Best Completed Research
- 2025 Purdue’s Community Summit Program of the Year First Runner Up
- 2024 AERA Adolescence and Youth Development Scholar
- 2024 Annual Graduate Student Education Research Symposium Best Completed Research
- 2023 and 2024 Purdue Bravo Award Operational Excellence
Professional Affiliations/Memberships
- Phi Kappa Phi
Research & Publications
Selected Publications
- Gibert, R., Adams, I., & Kang, S. (2024). From saving to budgeting: unpacking the impact of a culturally relevant financial literacy summer program-$ mart money. Cogent Education, 11(1), 2387900. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2331186X.2024.2387900
- Gibert, R., & Kastberg, S. (2025). Narratives of black mothers: Experiences in advocating for mathematical success in public education. In Forum for Education Studies (Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 2583-2583). https://ojs.acad-pub.com/index.php/FES/article/view/2583
- Booth-Womack, V. L., Austin, S. J., Gibert, R. S., Stwalley, C. S., Berhan, L. M., Markey, T., & Murphy-Ortega, C. (2022). Program: A focused, 5-year effort to increase the number of African American, Hispanic/Latino (a), Native American (AHLN) 7th-grade students who are academically prepared to take algebra. In 2022 CoNECD (Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity). https://peer.asee.org/program-a-focused-5-year-effort-to-increase-the-number-of-african-american-hispanic-latino-a-native-american-ahln-7th-grade-students-who-are-academically-prepared-to-take-algebra
Advisor
Research Area / Dissertation Topic
Out of School Time Space, STEM Counterspaces, and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy