Stephen Kostyo serves as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Learning Policy Institute. He is a member of LPI’s Whole Child Education and Policy teams, and is the lead author of Making ESSA’s Equity Promise Real: State Strategies to Close the Opportunity Gap. Read more >
Melanie Leung is a Research and Policy Associate on the Educator Quality and Equitable Resources and Access teams at LPI, where she works with quantitative data to understand inequities in education and find policy strategies to address them. Read more >
Stephanie Levin serves as Research Manager at the Learning Policy Institute. She co-leads LPI’s Equitable Resources and Access team. Her work centers on school finance, resource equity, and other issues that shape equity and access in K-12 education. Levin is also a member of the Educator Quality team, focusing on school leadership through research on professional learning and principal turnover. Read more >
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 >
Samentha “Sam” Moore is the Virtual Events Manager at the Learning Policy Institute (LPI). In this role, Moore works directly with research and policy experts, content producers, and partners to plan, produce, and execute virtual events for national audiences. 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 >
