John Fink
▪ Senior Research Associate, Community
College Research Center
▪ Columbia University
Matt Giani
▪ Director of Research and Data Science
▪ Assistant Professor of Practice,
Department of Educational Leadership
and Policy
▪ The University of Texas at Austin
Michelle Hodara
▪ Manager – Research and Evaluation
▪ REL Northwest, Education Northwest
▪ Michelle.Hodara@educationnorthwest.
org
Xiaodan Hu
▪ Assistant Professor, Department of
Counseling and Higher Education
▪ Northern Illinois University
Kate Kreamer
• Deputy Executive Director
• Advance CTE
• kkreamer@careertech.org
Jenny Nagaoka
▪ Deputy Director, University of Chicago
Consortium on School Research
▪ University of Chicago
Nick Mathern
• Executive Director, K-12 Partnerships
• Achieving the Dream
• nmathern@achievingthedream.org
Alex Perry
▪ Policy Advisor
▪ Foresight Law + Policy
▪ alex.perry@flpadvisors.com
Allison Socol
• Vice President for P 12 Policy, Practice,
and Research
• The Education Trust
Karen Stout
• President & CEO
• Achieving the Dream
• kstout@achievingthedream.org
Jason Taylor
▪ Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Educational Leadership and Policy
▪ University of Utah
▪ jason.taylor@utah.edu
Barbara Tobolowsky
▪ Associate Professor, Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies
▪ The University of Texas at Arlington
Stephen Tremaine
• Vice President for Early Colleges
• Bard College
Joel Vargas
• Vice President, Programs
• JFF
Michael Werner
• Coordinator of Post-Secondary Planning
• Mounds View Public Schools
• michael.werner@moundsviewschools.o
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