OUR TEAM

Dr. Emily K. Penner is Associate Professor of Education Policy and Social Context in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. Penner is a William T. Grant Scholar, and formerly a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Jacobs Foundation Young Scholar, a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, and an Institute of Education Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Education Policy Analysis. Penner received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Education from the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on K-12 education policy, and considers the ways that districts, schools, teachers, and families contribute to and ameliorate educational inequality.