PhD candidate Paola Andrea Guerrero-Rosada receives a Spencer Dissertation Fellowship from the National Academy of Education

Paola Andrea Guerrero-Rosada, a PhD candidate in the SOE's Combined Program in Education and Psychology, has been named a 2022 National Academy of Education Spencer Dissertation Fellow. 

Guerrero-Rosada’s research focuses on the classroom and center features that better support children’s development. She is interested in developing strategies to increase equitable access to high-quality early education settings, leveraging observational, geo-spatial, and administrative data. She has collaborated with a long-standing Research Practice Partnership between Boston Public Schools, the University of Michigan, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and MDRC examining factors that promote children’s gains from preschool to third grade, and studying the implementation of the Boston Universal Prekindergarten Program.

Prior to her doctoral studies, Guerrero-Rosada worked on the evaluation of professional development programs for early education in Colombia, and led undergraduate programs for pre-service teachers at the School of Education at Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia). She is a 2018 APPAM Equity and Diversity Fellow, and a 2022 Rackham Predoctoral Fellow.