Jennifer Iriti

Jennifer Iriti is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Inclusion and Outreach Strategy and a Research Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work focuses on supporting educational practitioners and decision-makers in using research, data, improvement methodologies, equity frameworks, and human-centered design to strengthen the quality of their work and accelerate achievement of their goals. Much of her recent work is centered on designing and evaluating collective impact efforts to increase equitable access to postsecondary education including evaluation of the Pittsburgh Promise, analysis of best practices across Promise programs nationally, the establishment of a new network of precollege STEM programs and building an evaluation plan for the Northern California College Promise Coalition. She has authored numerous

published journal articles, technical reports and book chapters including the recently released “The Free College Handbook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Promise Research.”