Jeffrey Parker works in Education Initiatives in the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Program Coordinator. He leads the Holocaust Institute for Teacher Educators (HITE), which works with methodology professors and examines best practices in preparing teacher candidates to address the Holocaust in their future classrooms. Before joining the Museum, Jeff taught high school English in the Finger Lakes region of New York State for over 20 years and is currently completing work on a PhD in Teaching and Curriculum at the University of Rochester, where the main focus of his research has been in the area of Holocaust Education.
