Carrie Hahnel
The Education Trust-West
Deputy Director of Research & Policy
Oakland, CA
Conversation Starter: How to design a next-generation state accountability system.
Prior to joining ETW, Carrie worked for the KIPP Foundation, most recently as Director of Research and Evaluation. Over the course of her five years at KIPP she was instrumental in promoting the use of data for strategic decision-making in KIPP’s 82 schools, launching a large-scale longitudinal study with Mathematica Policy Research, developing key school performance metrics, and managing all internal research and assessment efforts. She previously worked in research and evaluation for Citizen Schools, a national afterschool provider headquartered in Boston, MA, and in program coordination and policy analysis for Americans for the Arts, an arts advocacy organization in Washington, DC. She also participated in AmeriCorps VISTA, supporting afterschool, tutoring, and arts education programs in schools in Riverside, CA. Carrie holds a B.A. from Carleton College and an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education.