Peter Orne, MJ, is the Co-Lead of CIFR’s Technology & Communications Team and a Web Content Writer for WestEd. He has 15 years of experience promoting federally funded research and TA initiatives to national audiences of state and local education professionals. He is a former communications director for the Learning and Teaching Division at Education Development Center, Inc., and he was the Dissemination Director for the Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands. He has brought his expertise to projects such as the U.S. Department of Education’s Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) and the National Science Foundation’s Research + Practice Collaboratory. Orne designs and carries out wide-scale dissemination strategies using a data-driven, continuous-improvement approach across a range of digital publication and storytelling platforms. He has a master’s in journalism from the University of California Berkeley.