Every data point has a story behind it.

My degrees, grades, and test scores only scratch the surface of my educational journey. Behind those numbers and milestones are a few hundred trips to the library to indulge my earliest curiosities, a couple dozen family conversations to find the right balance between academic challenge and social-emotional support, and the boundless passions of teachers from preschool to Ph.D. who reveled in the joys of sharing their intellectual fascinations with their students.

Somewhere along the way, I learned to seek the stories behind the data. Who is being served well in our education system? Who isn’t, and why? How can we create schools that allow all students to learn to their full potential? Using the tools of economics, and working with researchers across a variety of disciplines, I work toward the answers to these questions, and others like them.

Because without a story, it’s all just numbers.