Our Team

Jessica Shiller, Ph.D., serves as the director of MCCS@TU and is a professor at the College of Education. She's worked with community schools for over a decade, often sending her students to these schools to strengthen their family and community engagement skills. Dr. Shiller is a former grant recipient of the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE), consulted for the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) and Coalition for Community Schools, and has published several articles on community schools. Her most recent, "Out of a Crisis Comes Resilience: Community School Coordinators Work Through the Pandemic to Generate Social Capital in Baltimore's Neighborhoods", appeared in the February 2024 issue of The Urban Review.

Stephanie Flores-Koulish, Ph.D., is a Professional Development Fellow for MCCS@TU and Professor and Program Director of the Master of Arts program in Curriculum & Instruction for Social Justice at Loyola University Maryland. For over 20 years, she has worked in and around Baltimore City on engaged scholarship. Dr. Flores-Koulish also does extensive work in critical media literacy education through the National Association for Media Literacy Education. 

Omari Jackson, Ph.D., is an is an Associate Professor in the College of Education’s Department of Instructional Leadership and Professional Development (ILPD) and serves as faculty research fellow at MCCS @TU.  As an educational sociologist, he is passionate about working with families and communities and teaches courses that connect culture, families, communities, and schools.