Our Mission & Work
We think we can learn a great deal by studying all forms of school choice, on a national scale, from different perspectives, and with different methods. Our goal is to inform and improve choice policy design and implementation, so that these policies do more to increase opportunities and outcomes for disadvantaged students.
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is responsible for managing REACH, with each member overseeing at least one strand of the center's research.
Douglas N. Harris
National Director
Julie A. Marsh
Director of Qualitative Research
Amy Ellen Schwartz
Director of Transportation Research
Katharine O. Strunk
Director of Teacher Policy Research
Research Partners & Staff
The REACH team includes leading researchers from over a dozen institutions across the country.
Kaitlin Anderson
Research Partner
Katrina Bulkley
Research Partner
Jamie M. Carroll
Associate Director for Research
Sarah A. Cordes
Research Partner
Curt Cronister
Research Partner
Thurston Domina
Research Partner
Danielle Sanderson Edwards
Research Partner
Sofia Gomez
Communications Manager
Carolyn Herrington
Research Partner
Scott Imberman
Research Partner
Huriya Jabbar
Research Partner
Jordan Johnson
Associate Director of Operations, Finance, and Communications
Sarah Lenhoff
Research Partner
Jane Arnold Lincove
Research Partner
Amanda Lu
Research Partner
Andrew McEachin
Research Partner
Josep Nadal-Fernandez
Senior Research Fellow
Anjana Nair
Scientific Research Analyst
Emilia Nordgren
Scientific Research Analyst
Andrew Penner
Research Partner
Alexander Siebert
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sage Sigler
Scientific Research Analyst
Jeremy Singer
Research Partner
Marc Stein
Research Partner
Jon Valant
Research Partner
Meryle Weinstein
Research Partner
Sheneka Williams
Research Partner
Matias Morales
Postdoctoral Fellow
Gabriel Olivier
Graduate Student in the Department of Economics
Research Advisory Board
The Research Advisory Board plays a key role in REACH by providing peer review of analysis plans and reports prior to their release and suggesting studies for the Research Clearinghouse.
Sam Abrams
International Partnership for the Study of Educational Privatization
Bruce Baker
University of Miami
Nathan Barrett
Coleridge Initiative
Mark Berends
University of Notre Dame
Joseph Robinson Cimpian
New York University
Joshua M. Cowen
Michigan State University
Kara Finnigan
University of Michigan
Douglas Fuchs
Vanderbilt University
Lynn Fuchs
Vanderbilt University
Frederick M. Hess
American Enterprise Institute
Jennifer Jennings
Princeton University
Nathan Jones
Boston University
Henry M. Levin
Columbia University
Wayne Lewis
Houghton University
Madeline Mavrogordato
Michigan State University
Patrick McEwan
Wellesley College
Michael McShane
EdChoice
Parag Pathak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Janelle Scott
University of California, Berkeley
Ron Zimmer
University of Kentucky
National Policy Advisory Board
The National Policy Advisory Board plays an important role in REACH by providing input on potential studies that would inform policy debates on school choice and by reviewing all studies in advance of their release to ensure that our work is accessible and useful for policymakers.