Co-Chairs (term 2 years)

• Steph Tuters is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. She researches how social justice pursuits are enacted through leadership, policy, and practice. She is currently investigating how actors within and outside of school districts are working towards racial and greater social justice. Dr. Tuters received her Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Policy Studies from OISE at the University of Toronto. You can learn more about her work at LHAE :: Stephanie Diane Tuters :: Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education (utoronto.ca).

• Alice Huguet (she/her) is a policy researcher focused on K–12 education at the RAND Corporation. She studies policies that influence the academic and life opportunities of students who have been historically underserved by educational institutions. Huguet employs qualitative methods to better understand complex environmental, institutional, and organizational factors that intersect with the design and implementation of such policies. Prior to joining RAND, Huguet was a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She earned her Ph.D. in urban education policy from the University of Southern California, and her motivation to study education stems from five years teaching reading and history in Los Angeles middle schools. She is currently the co-director of RAND’s Center for Qualitative and Mixed Methods.

Co-Program Chairs (term 2 years) 

• Abigail Stein, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research explores the relationship between education policy and equitable instruction, drawing on perspectives from the learning sciences, organizational theory, and sociology. She is particularly interested in how districts and schools design and implement systems for instructional improvement and the role leaders and teachers play in policy implementation. To date, the context of most of her work has been elementary mathematics and early childhood instruction. She has presented this work at national research conferences and feedback sessions to participating schools and districts. She has also published in peer-reviewed journals and policy briefs. Dr. Stein holds a Ph.D. in the Learning Sciences from the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. 
   
  

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Secretary (term 2 years) 

• Elisabeth Kim, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Education and Leadership at California State University, Monterey Bay. Her research uses a mixed-methods approach to explore the links between education policy and educational equity, with a particular focus on how contemporary policies moderate or exacerbate inequities in districts that serve low-income students of color. Her research interests include equitable leadership, student discipline policy, bilingual education, access to STEM coursework and FAFSA completion. She is co-editor of a volume entitled Equity Doesn’t Just Happen: Stories of Education Leaders Working Toward Social Justice published by Rowman & Littlefield in Feb. 2023.

Graduate Student Representative

• Sheena Bell is a PhD Candidate in Educational Leadership and Policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Her research focusses on governance in decentralized education systems in low-and middle-income countries. Her SSHRC-CGS supported mixed-methods dissertation, under the supervision of Dr. Karen Mundy, examines the management practices and organizational contexts of high performing education districts in Ghana. Before starting her PhD, Sheena worked for a decade as an education policy and data specialist with UNICEF and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. She holds an MPA – International Development from the University of York (UK), an MA in Political Science from McGill University, and a BA (Hons) in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.