Michelle Renée Valladares, Ph.D., is the Associate Director of the National Education Policy Center , a Faculty Affiliate of the CU Boulder School of Education and CU Public and Community Engaged Scholarship Research Project Lead on Funding for Engaged Scholarship. At NEPC, she leads and partners in a series of projects that aim to increase educational opportunities for all students (examples include the Research Hub for Youth Organizing and the Price of Opportunity Project). At the Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship, Michelle is leading an exploration of how best to expand funding for public scholarship on campus. She brings decades of experience working at the intersection of education policy, research, philanthropy. Renée Valladares has a PhD in education from the University of California Los Angeles and a BA in environmental studies from the University of California Santa Cruz. Prior to joining CU Boulder, Valladares was associate director and assistant clinical professor at Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform, a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access and a legislative assistant to then Congressman Tom Udall.
