Annie Hale

Dr. Annie Hale is the Executive Director of Action Lab at EdPlus, Arizona State University. Action Lab is a learning laboratory inside EdPlus that provides key findings to improve the ASU learning environment. With an emphasis on online learning, large transformational projects, and learning prototypes, Action Lab's predictive and evaluative analyses support enrollment, student success, and persistence from a robust data and research perspective. Annie is keenly focused on improving equity, inclusivity, and the quality of education for learners everywhere and is highly motivated by ASU's Charter. For more than ten years at ASU, she has created and taught undergraduate courses, executed large-scale research projects, and supported co-developed university-wide solutions with actionable and operational insights. As an intellectual and civically-minded transformational catalyst, Annie aims to re-conceptualize and expand higher education's evolving social contract with society. Annie has more than a decade of experience securing grants and philanthropic funding to advance these projects and research. Before coming to EdPlus in the Fall of 2021, she worked at ASU's Biodesign Insitute for Nobel Laureate Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., for 12 years. Annie still actively collaborates with Lee. Before coming to ASU, Annie worked in the field of architecture as a designer for five years at the influential architecture studio Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill. She is LEED-certified.