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Participating in the Harvard Strategic Data Project was a foundational experience in my early career that continues to pay dividends. From the early days when it was just the 8 of us -- Gretchen Guffy, Hella Bel Hadj Amor, Andy Baxter, Whitney Allgood, PhD, Greg Gaines, and others -- to now seeing the community of experts and leaders committed to using data to improve outcomes for students has been a privilege to watch unfold. In 2008, I was young and naive enough to believe that using data in smart ways was enough to change the world. In 2024, I'm experienced enough to know that this is actually true. The path isn't always straightforward, and much of the data-focused work this network conducts flies under the radar. Rhode Island's innovative data dashboards - work led by other SDP alumni, and that I wrote about for FutureEd at Georgetown earlier this month - is yet another proof point that this work is not just important, but critical. My gratitude to the team at SDP for this lovely profile, and for selecting me as a member of the Alumni Advisory Board! Rhode Island report here: https://lnkd.in/ea35McMY
👋 Meet Liz Cohen! Next up in our series profiling the members of the 2023-2025 SDP Alumni Advisory Board is SDP Pilot Cohort alumna, Liz Cohen. Liz was an SDP Fellow with District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) and is now the Policy Director at FutureEd at Georgetown, an independent, solution-oriented think tank at Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. Read our Q+A with Liz and stay tuned as we spotlight more of our outstanding Alumni Advisory Board members in the coming weeks: https://ow.ly/qtPw50T4hXc