Lucrecia Santibañez (Ph.D. Education, M.A. Economics, Stanford University) is an Associate Professor at UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies. Beginning in March 2022, she will be the faculty co-director of UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools. She previously taught at Claremont Graduate University, CIDE in Mexico City, and was Education Economist at the RAND Corporation. She studies how to improve teaching and learning for vulnerable populations including emergent bilingual students. Her academic research has been published by Economics of Education Review, Teachers College Record, Review of Educational Research, Education Policy Analysis Archives, International Journal of Behavioral Development, International Journal of Educational Development and Well-Being and Social Policy. She publishes in both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking journals.