LEADERSHIP & STAFF
founder-directors
Elisabeth
Jacobs
Jal Mehta
staff
Ben
Ansell
Lydia
Bean
Jane
Gingrich
David
J. Harding
Matissa
Hollister
Joel
Horwich
Tomás
Roberto
Jiménez
Matthew
Kaliner
Michal
Kurlaender
Jason
Lakin
Therese
Leung
Elizabeth
Oltmans
Ananat
Judy
Scott-Clayton
Patrick
Sharkey
Adam
Thomas
Vesla
Mae Weaver
Christopher
Wimer
Scott
Winship
Michal Kurlaender is an assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of California-Davis. Her research interests include access to post-secondary schooling for underrepresented populations; K-12 school desegregation and integration, and bringing innovative quantitative methods to bear on issues of education policy. Kurlaender has published widely in top academic journals in the fields of education and sociology and has received research grants from institutions including the Spencer Foundation and the American Educational Research Association. She received an Ed.D. in Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in June 2005.