Senior Research Assistant
kedmunds@researchforaction.org
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Kimberly Edmunds joined RFA as a Senior Research Assistant. She is a Philadelphia native who completed four years of teaching in two of the city’s charter schools. Her professional experience provides her with sensitivity toward urban education issues, especially literacy, teacher quality, and civic engagement. At the University of Pennsylvania Kim combined her education background with the master’s program in Urban Spatial Analytics, which granted her the opportunity to explore how geospatial technology could be used as a tool in educational research and policy. During her coursework she served as an intern at the School District of Philadelphia in the office of Capital Programs where she managed spatial data pertaining to students, schools, and the Philadelphia region. Kim is especially interested in the sociology of education, such as the distribution of educational opportunities across race and social class. Her master’s capstone examined the relationship between students’ neighborhood characteristics and school performance in Philadelphia using geographic information systems (GIS).
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