Monica Martinez provides strategic direction and support for multiple initiatives across LPI, most specifically focused on performance assessment. Martinez has spent her career focused on addressing college success from both the higher education level and the k–12 level.
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Barbara McKenna is the Director of Strategic Communications. She oversees outreach relations for LPI, communicating LPI’s news to media and the public and serving as a resource for members of the press looking for research to inform education news of the day. Read more >
Hanna Melnick co-leads LPI's Early Childhood Learning team. Her work centers on policies that can improve early learning systems in California and other states, particularly preparing a high-quality, diverse educator workforce. Read more >
Tiffany Miller serves as the Director of Federal Policy for the Learning Policy Institute, where she works to bring evidence-based research to policymakers to advance policies that provide equitable learning opportunities for every child. Read more >
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 >
Angela Papa is the Accounting Assistant responsible for the accounts payable cycle. She also supports the finance and operations team with administrative support and ad-hoc projects. Papa has more than fifteen years of experience in the field of accounting and finance. Read more >
Susan Kemper Patrick is a Senior Researcher on the Educator Quality team at the Learning Policy Institute. After working in schools as a middle school teacher and volunteer coordinator, her research now examines inequities in the learning opportunities available to both students and their teachers. 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 >
