Staff Profiles


Executive Staff

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Paul Hill
Director and Research Professor


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Robin Lake
Associate Director


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Marguerite Roza
Research Associate Professor, UW College of Education


Center Staff

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Julie Angeley
Operations and Communications Manager


Parker Baxter

Parker Baxter
Senior Legal Analyst


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Melissa Bowen
Research Analyst


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Debra Britt
Communications Director


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Christine Campbell
Senior Research Analyst


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Michael DeArmond
Research Analyst


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Allison Demeritt
Research Assistant


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Kristine Echert
Program Assistant


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Betheny Gross
Senior Research Analyst


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James Harvey
Education Writer


Sarah Hughes
Web and Marketing Specialist


Shannon Murtagh
Research Coordinator


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Elizabeth Cooley Nelson
Research Analyst


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Monica Ouijdani
Research Coordinator


Tamara Power-Drutis
Research Coordinator


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Mitch Price
Legal Analyst


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Carol Wallace
Program Operations Specialist


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Sarah Yatsko
Research Analyst


Senior Research Affiliate

Julian Betts
Professor, Dept. of Economics, University of California, San Diego


Bryan Hassel

Bryan Hassel
Co-Director, Public Impact


Kelly Hupfeld
Associate Dean, Research Assistant Professor, and Policy Analyst, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver


Neerav Kingsland
Chief Strategy Officer, New Schools for New Orleans


Larry Miller

Larry Miller
Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA), Rutgers University-Newark


Patrick J. Murphy

Patrick J. Murphy
Professor and Chair, Department of Politics, University of San Francisco


Bradley Portin

Bradley Portin
Director and Professor, University of Washington Bothell, Education Program


Robert Reichardt

Robert Reichardt
Research Analyst, Buechner Institute for Governance; Director, Center for Education Policy Analysis, University of Colorado Denver


Andrew Rotherham

Andrew Rotherham
Co-Founder and Partner, Bellwether Education


Paul Teske
Dean and Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver