Dr. Curtis is associate director of the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics. She has been instrumental in shaping the institute, managing and directing its video materials, and working to integrate various Annenberg projects such as Student Voices, FactcheckED.org, and Justice Learning. In addition to being the former website coordinator for Sunnylands Classroom (www.SunnylandsClassroom.org), she was a research assistant at the Annenberg School for Communication where she published articles in Personality and Individual Differences, Psychology, Health & Medicine, and AIDS and Behavior.