Naomi Ondrasek serves as a Sacramento-based policy advisor and senior researcher for the Learning Policy Institute. She previously worked on the California Assembly Education Committee, where she served as a California Council on Science and Technology science fellow. Read more >
Sara Plasencia is a member of LPI’s Early Childhood Learning and Deeper Learning teams. Prior to joining LPI, she worked at The Education Trust as a graduate fellow on the National and State Partnerships team. Read more >
Carolyn Rutsch is the Director of Development. She cultivates and stewards relationships with LPI’s foundation funders, building and managing a pipeline of investors for its work. Read more >
Abby Schachner co-leads LPI's Early Childhood Learning team and is a member of the Deeper Learning team where she is working to translate research on children’s social, emotional and academic development and the contexts that support such development to inform policy and practice. Read more >
Caitlin Scott provides research direction and support at LPI. For the past two decades, her publications have focused on educator learning and change, as well as improving educational systems at all levels, especially for students traditionally underserved by public schools. Read more >
