Work and projects

Lifestyle Learning® & Career Navideer

Co-Founder & CEO, Lifestyle Learning · CEO since 2019

Education and career planning become more meaningful when people can connect their choices to the life they hope to build. Lifestyle Learning and its Career Navideer platform bring that relationship into focus.

Career Navideer connects career exploration, education navigation, and lifestyle goals. The work brings DePass’s experience in education and workforce development into a practical setting for learners, counselors, and institutions. Product information, demonstrations, and organizational inquiries remain with Lifestyle Learning and Career Navideer.

Understanding Interventions

Director / Co-Director since 2007 · Journal Publisher since 2017

What works, for whom, and under which conditions? What evidence would allow others to learn from it? These questions sit at the center of understanding and evaluating interventions.

Understanding Interventions connects scholarship and practice around broadening participation in science. Its conferences, journal, and research resources provide venues for researchers, evaluators, and practitioners to exchange evidence. DePass also served as Co-Director of the Louis Stokes Regional Center of Excellence for the Study of STEM Interventions from 2020 to 2024.

DePass Academic Consulting

President since 2000

Helping institutions connect their ambitions, program designs, and evaluation plans to the evidence they need to make decisions.

The consulting practice encompasses program design and development, evaluation, grantsmanship training, grantwriting, and professional development. DePass’s experience includes leading or evaluating externally funded training initiatives, with work associated with NIH research training and NSF programs including ADVANCE, LSAMP, S-STEM, HBCU-UP, IUSE, and Noyce.

DePass Academic Consulting provides professional development, grant writing, and grant-writing training for faculty and staff, alongside program evaluation and institutional development.

Biology, research & STEM workforce initiatives

Former Professor of Biology · Long Island University

A scientific career that includes laboratory research, student preparation, research development, and the institutional conditions that support scientific careers.

DePass’s research includes cell signaling and cancer-related investigations. His academic leadership included research development at Long Island University and service as principal investigator of the American Society for Cell Biology’s NIH-funded T36 MARC program while chairing its Minorities Affairs Committee. His more recent selected scholarship examines recruitment, admissions, retention, and research experiences across stages of education.

Tony’s Guide & Jamaican historical research

Publisher · researcher

Place becomes more interesting when useful guidance meets the deeper story: history, culture, environment, and the lives behind the landscape.

Tony’s Guide connects destination planning with contextual storytelling. DePass’s Jamaican historical and family research examines archival records and inherited narratives, with particular interest in the histories of St. Mary and St. Ann. The work asks what records establish, what they leave unresolved, and how interpretation changes when new evidence emerges.