Dr. Kendall LaParo (she/her) is an education researcher and sociologist who studies inequality in school systems. She currently works as a quantitative researcher at Research for Action, an education research firm in Philadelphia. She also cofacilitates Philadelphia’s Data & Assessment Community of Practice, a gathering space for education leaders. Kendall began her career as an elementary school teacher in Camden, New Jersey. While teaching, she discovered a passion for education research and now uses her experience as an educator to inform her data science work. She served as director of analytics at the education nonprofit Springboard Collaborative, where she managed data collection and analysis for three national out-of-school-time literacy programs that served more than 5,000 students each year. She also worked as a researcher at the School District of Philadelphia and Temple University’s Public Policy Lab. She holds an MS in urban education from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in sociology from Temple University. She can be reached at kendall.laparo@gmail.com.