Moore is a research scientist at the MIT STEP Lab / Education Arcade interested in AI education and collaborative learning. She works closely with teachers, district leaders, after-school program organizers, and museum educators across the United States to co-design and apply mixed-methods research to study youth cognitive and affective learning outcomes and teacher professional development experiences to advance pedagogy in middle and high school artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) literacy. She also explores how culturally sustaining pedagogy and communities of practice raise awareness of issues in ethics, bias and other limitations in AI systems among teachers and their students.

EDUCATION
Moore earned her PhD in Cognitive Science in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2021. Her doctoral research examined how collaborative discourse impacts problem-solving performance, innovation, and transfer learning. Her first Masters is from Pace University in Teaching Middle Childhood Education and Special Education. She also holds a Bachelors degree in Anthropology from Barnard College.

​TEACHING
Before becoming a research scientist, Moore was a classroom teacher for 10 years in the South Bronx, Newark, Manhattan, and Pittsburgh, PA. She taught subjects ranging from Technology, English, Math, and Science. She worked as Special Education Teacher, an Inclusion Teacher, and Learning Specialist. Moore also worked as a Lead Professional Development Coach in 11 different schools across New York City as part of the Center for the Professional Education of Teachers (CPET).