ABOUT

Marlo Reeves (she/her) is an education researcher who uses culturally responsive and equitable evaluation frameworks to design and implement robust mixed-method evaluation processes and systems. She specializes in incorporating youth voice in evaluation, creating theories of change, building data collection and management systems, developing digestible data visualization, and encouraging participatory data analysis.

Currently, she is a Researcher at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Before her time at AIR, Marlo worked as a researcher with the Office of Socially Responsible Evaluation in Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as well as the Data Visualization Fellow with Mirror Group, a DC-based consulting firm specializing in data equity. She’s also worked with the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative coordinating culturally responsive and equitable evaluations for the Milwaukee Community School Partnership.

For her work working alongside high-school-aged community organizers for social justice, Marlo was awarded the Jean Anyon Graduate Student Paper Award from the Grassroots and Community Youth Organizing Special Interest Group of the American Education Research Association and the Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Award from the Morgridge Center for Public Service. Alongside her colleagues, Marlo has published articles in top research journals, including the Review of Research in Education and the Journal of American College Health.

She has a Ph.D. from the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. in Political Science from Marquette University. She currently serves as the secretary/treasurer of the Out-of-School Time Special Interest Group.