Danah Henriksen

Danah Henriksen, Ph.D., is an associate professor of leadership & innovation at Arizona State University in the Mary Lou Fulton College of Teaching & Learning Innovations. Her research focuses broadly on creativity in education, with a thread of work related to mindfulness and well-being. She is an author of several books, including Explaining Creativity (3rd edition), as well as articles in varied peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Teachers College Record, Review of Research in Education, and Teaching Education), and practitioner venues. She is an associate editor with journals like Thinking Skills and Creativity, and Education Policy Analysis Archives. Dr. Henriksen has served as Creativity SIG co-chair for the Society of Information Technology in Education, and a working group leader for EDUsummIT—a UNESCO-supported global educational consortium. As the current co-chair of the Dissertation in Practice SIG for the Carnegie Project in the Education Doctorate, she supports creative research structures and approaches embedded in practice.