Cathy Yun is the Deputy Director of EdPrepLab and Senior Researcher at the Learning Policy Institute. Yun's work focuses on research, policies, and practices that strengthen educator preparation and support student engagement and deeper learning in early childhood through secondary classrooms. Yun helps lead EdPrepLab, which is a national network of educator preparation programs, and partners with various entities to advise state agencies, serve on state-level working groups, provide technical assistance to states or districts, and support other mission-aligned organizations.

Prior to LPI, Yun was an associate professor and department chair at Fresno State. Yun's experience includes data-driven program improvement, community partnerships, large-scale multi-state research, and early childhood teaching.

Yun holds a PhD in Learning, Teaching, and Diversity from Vanderbilt University, an EdM in Neuroscience and Education and MA in Reading Specialist from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a double BA in Psychology and English from Wellesley College.