Dr. Randy Testa

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Dr. Randy Testa works in the Professional Education division of the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Senior Project Manager where he oversees the running of Professor of Dr. Karen Mapp’s Family, School and Community Engagement Summer and Fall Institutes.

Testa also devised with Harvard faculty asynchronous online programs on topics such as Moral Leadership in a Troubled Time: Lessons from the Life of John Rabe; Schooling for Critical Consciousness of Racism and Racial Injustice; the Leadership Institute for Faith and Education [LIFE] and Civics Education and Youth Participatory Politics.

Prior to coming to Harvard Testa worked for twelve years as the VP of Professional Development for a major movie studio. Highlights of that work include workshops and creation of educator resources for screen adaptations of films such as RAY [from Ray Charles’ book Brother Ray], THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM and AMAZING GRACE [The story of William Wilberforce and his 25 year-long battle to abolish the slave trade in Great Britain]. Testa worked closely with Tonya Lewis-Lee on her screen adaptation and direction of THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM from the Newbery Honor winning novel by Christopher Paul Curtis --which premiered in Birmingham, AL for the 50th anniversary of the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church.

Testa holds his Ed.M. [‘79] and Ed.D. [‘90] from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.