Dr. Doris Zahner is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Service of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She is also the Chief Academic Officer at the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), a non-profit educational assessment organization based in Manhattan. Her responsibilities include providing thought leadership on assessments of critical thinking and other essential 21st century skills for the organization and overseeing research studies pertaining to the CLA+ and CWRA+. She holds a PhD in cognitive psychology and an MS in applied statistics from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition to her teaching appointment at NYU, she is also Adjunct Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and Barnard College, Columbia University where she teaches courses in statistics to students in the social sciences. Outside of her professional responsibilities, Dr. Zahner is an avid birder, SCUBA diver, and home cook.
