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 >
Edward Rivero is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute. He is a learning scientist whose dissertation research examined youth agency and ingenuity in online gaming ecologies. 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 >
Priscilla Saralegui-Torres is a Web Specialist on LPI’s Communication team, where she supports web-based projects and initiatives. Saralegui-Torres has worked as a digital specialist and content manager for various organizations for over a decade. 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 >
