Rhulene Artis is a WSN Key Leader and a WASDI Lead Teacher. She is recently retired from her teaching career in the Milwaukee Public Schools. While at MPS Rhulene taught elementary school, served as a District Model Teacher, and later a District Wide Elementary Level Science Demonstration Teacher. Later in her MSP career Rhulene was the Assistant Director of the Milwaukee Urban Systemic Initiative in Science and Mathematics (MUSI) and later the acting director. Her role in MUSI included supervising support teachers, providing professional development for teachers, curriculum and assessment writing, formulating and maintaining partnerships with colleges/universities, business, and nonprofit organizations that support science and mathematics education, collaborating and planning with parents and tutors, and planning along with school staff and district-level staff. In her retirement Rhulene serves as adjunct instructor for Cardinal Stritch University and Marian College.
At the state level Rhulene is a WASDI Lead Teacher and was instrumental in initiating the Wisconsin Elementary and Middle Level Science Teachers (WEST) organization and continues to be active. She is a member of WSST and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Alliance of Black School Educators. (MMABSE) She has served on numerous committee and task forces for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and was one of the authors of the DPI Curriculum Planning in Science.
At the national level Rhulene has been active in the Association for Multicultural Science Education (AMSE) and has held leadership roles in several NSTA committees.