Davina Pruitt-Mentle

Davina Pruitt-Mentle Executive Director Educational Technology Policy,Research, and Outreach (ETPRO)

Davina Pruitt-Mentle, a senior researcher and policy analyst for Educational Technology Policy, Research and Outreach (ETPRO) has worked in the field of STEM education & educational and cyberawareness research since 1990. She has spent the past 11 years conducting research on student and educator cyberawareness and K-16 cyberethics, safety and security awareness programs, and developing programs to help increase the IS/IA workforce pipeline.  

Research and development interests have focused on the Cyberethics, Cybersafety and Cybersecurity (C3) framework. Some of her recent published work has focused on the state of C3 awareness knowledge and programs, cyberawareness strategies, and SECURE IT, a holistic approach program to promote C3 and connect to careers in IA/IS/Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics. She acts as a CO- PI on the NSF funded CyberWatch Regional Center, PI for the CyberWatch/UMD Digital Forensics Lab, PI of the MD BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) –EIS-C MD (Expanding IS Capacity in MD), and serves on numerous national, state and local Technology Task Forces and Advisory Boards.  

She has served as faculty lecturer within the College of Education at UMCP since 2001, and served as Director of Educational Technology Outreach within the College of Education at UMCP from 2001-2008. She has a PhD in Educational Technology Policy from the University of Maryland.