Staff

Director
  • Thomas Bailey
    George and Abby O'Neill Professor of Economics and Education & Director, Institute on Education and the Economy
    Teachers College, Columbia University
Associate Directors
  • Lisa Rothman
    Associate Director for Finance, Administration, and Communications
    Teachers College, Columbia University
Assistant Directors
  • Katherine L. Hughes
    Assistant Director for Work and Education Reform Research
    Teachers College, Columbia University
Senior Research Associates and Affiliates
  • Mariana Alfonso
    Junior Professional/Research Economist
    Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank
  • Elisabeth A. Barnett
    Senior Research Associate
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Juan Carlos Calcagno
    Researcher
    Mathematica Policy Research
  • Belkis Suazo deCastro
    Senior Research Associate
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Kevin Dougherty
    Associate Professor of Higher Education
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • W. Norton Grubb
    David Gardiner Chair in Higher Education
    School of Education, U.C. Berkeley
  • Davis Jenkins
    Senior Research Associate
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Melinda Mechur Karp
    Senior Research Associate
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Gregory S. Kienzl
    Principal Investigator in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Fields
    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • MoonHee Kim
    Deputy Director
    Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development, Korea
  • Vanessa Smith Morest
    Dean of Institutional Effectiveness
    Norwalk Community College
  • Dolores Perin
    Associate Professor of Psychology and Education
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Stuart Rosenfeld
    President
    Regional Technology Strategies, Inc.
  • Kathleen M. Shaw
    Chair, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
    Temple University
  • Pamela Tolbert-Bynum
    Senior Research Associate
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • David Weiman
    Professor of Economics
    Barnard College, Columbia University
  • Matthew Zeidenberg
    Senior Research Associate
    Teachers College, Columbia University
Research Associates
Senior Research Assistants
  • Sung-Woo Cho
    Senior Research Assistant, and Doctoral Student in Economics and Education
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Todd Ellwein
    Senior Research Assistant, and Doctoral Student in Politics and Education
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Joanne Wang Golann
    Senior Research Assistant
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Rachel Hare
    Postsecondary Content-Area Reading-Writing Intervention Project Coordinator, and Doctoral Student in Politics and Education
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Rebecca Natow
    Senior Research Assistant, and Doctoral student in Higher and Postsecondary Education
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Monica Reid
    Senior Research Assistant, and Doctoral Student in Higher and Postsecondary Education
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Michelle Van Noy
    Senior Research Assistant, and Doctoral Student in Sociology and Education
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • John Wachen
    Senior Research Assistant
    Teachers College, Columbia University
Research Assistants & Fellows
  • Mina Dadgar
    Research Assistant, and Doctoral Student in Economics and Education
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Laura Harding
    Research Assistant, and MA Student, Applied Educational Psychology Reading Specialist
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Amanda Rosenburg
    Research Assistant, and MA Student in Developmental Psychology
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Cecilia Speroni
    Research Assistant, and Doctoral Student in Economics and Education
    Teachers College, Columbia University
Project Assistants
  • Elizabeth Yoon
    Administrative and Editorial Assistant
    Teachers College, Columbia University
Administrative Coordinator
Communications Staff
  • Lauren Koch
    Technical Website Producer
    Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Doug Slater
    Publications Manager
    Teachers College, Columbia University
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