Dr. Francesca Adler-Baeder
Principal Investigator/Project Director of AHMREI
Dr. Francesca Adler-Baeder is the AU Alumni Professor of Human Development and Family Science at Auburn University in Alabama and directs the long-running, statewide Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Initiative, a university-community partnership. Her scholarly work is translational in nature and centers on the understanding and promotion of optimal relationship health, interpersonal competence, and family and individual resilience, with special emphasis on the experiences of racially and economically diverse couples, more vulnerable adults and youth, and structurally complex families. Dr. Adler-Baeder has worked for over two decades in the active bridging of research and practice in Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) through program design, curriculum and resource development, capacity-building with community partners, participatory research, and rigorous efficacy trials. She has guided hundreds of students in basic and applied research methods, facilitated new professionals’ launch of HMRE initiatives in other states, and published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and technical reports, mostly on the practice and results of relationship education for diverse populations. Her body of work in relationship education science is recognized nationally and internationally and recent awards include National Council on Family Relations Fellow, Auburn University’s Distinguished Diversity Researcher, and the Association for Public and Land-Grant Universities’ Outstanding Faculty Engagement Award.
Dr. Julianne McGill
Co-Principal Investigator/Project Manager of AHMREI
Julianne McGill, Ph.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Human Development and Family Science at Auburn University and the Co-Principal Investigator and Project Manager for both the Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (AHMRE) Project and Alabama Youth Relationship Education (AYRE Project). She is a Certified Family Life Educator and is the co-author of the Couples Connecting Mindfully relationship education curriculum. She has been with the project since 2009, first as an undergraduate research assistant, then as a graduate research assistant, and now as full-time staff. She provides day-to-day project management and directs the logistics necessary to implement all programmatic components, as well as performance measurement and continuous quality improvement procedures. Dr. McGill utilizes a prevention science approach to study community-based education focused on supporting healthy relationships through mindfulness and skill-based programs. She lives in Opelika, Alabama with her husband Tyler, their daughters Amelia and Tennant Lane, and their wiener dog Wylee.Dr. Mallory Lucier-Greer
Co-Investigator of AHMRE
Mallory Lucier-Greer, Ph.D., is Co-Investigator for the Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Project and Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Auburn University. She has a clinical background as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Family Life Educator, and she regularly serves as one of the facilitators of the ELEVATE curriculum to couples in Lee County, Alabama. Her research focuses on family stress and identifying leverage points that promote healthy family coping and, ultimately, resilience. Dr. Lucier-Greer is an award-winning educator with expertise in facilitating engagement in the classroom and in research; she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on adaptive family processes and applied research methods. She lives in Auburn, Alabama with her husband and their three kids.
Staff
Leah Burke
Data Manager of AHMRE
Leah Burke, M.S., serves as the Data Manager for the Alabama Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Project. She graduated from Auburn University in 2013 with a Bachelor’s in Human Development and Family Studies and in 2015 with a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy. She enjoys working with couples and families to build both personal and relationship skills. Previously, she worked with AHMREI as both an undergraduate practicum student and a graduate research assistant.