JJ is a Senior Research Associate at EdSolutions where she specializes in applying qualitative and quantitative market research findings to help organizations improve programming, products, and services to drive more equitable outcomes for students.
With a background in journalism, JJ spent 13 years teaching a variety of courses in secondary language arts. Her last position, working with students who had been expelled from high school, drove her to earn a doctorate in education equity (executive leadership). Her dissertation focused on disproportionalities in expelled and out-of-school suspended student populations in a suburban district in the Denver, CO, area.
JJ believes true change and education improvement must be driven by the overall system- including classrooms, philanthropic education foundations, and education product suppliers. While data and research are powerful tools, their true impact comes from the stories they tell and the changes they drive. Organizations within the education space must be able to see the contextual implementations of market research to find practical and solution-focused methods to make changes in students’ learning.
Education: B.S., Colorado State University, CO; M.A., Northwestern University, IL; EdD, University of Colorado-Denver, CO