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Reis Hagerman is currently working with the the State of Maine’s Finance Authority on tools to help students with financial planning for college. Throughout his career he has worked on many aspects of higher education enrollment, marketing, and sales, including leadership positions with the American Student Assistance, as Vice President for Enrollment at Saint Joseph’s College, and in the CollegeBoard’s Higher Education Division. He also helped found Think Ahead Inc., one of the first college net price calculators.

Robert is Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Education Leadership Management and Policy at Seton Hall University. His research focuses on higher education finance and accountability policies, including areas such as student financial aid, college rankings, and program evaluation. He is frequently quoted in the media, including The Washington Post, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Inside Higher Ed, and Politico, and he was recently selected as one of the 15 most indispensable academics on Twitter by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Amanda Janice Roberson is a senior research analyst at the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), where she is a member of the policy research team. Her research interests include using data to inform policy and practice; college access, affordability and success; and federal higher education policy. Much of her work at IHEP centers on postsecondary data, metrics, and infrastructure, including contributions to the Postsecondary Metrics Framework and A Blueprint for Better Information: Recommendations for a Student-Level Data Network.

In addition to his work at Edmit, Walter is an adjunct lecturer in the Enterprise Artificial Intelligence program at Northeastern University, where he teaches Data Visualization and Communication. Previously, he worked in intellectual property consulting at IP Capital Group, and was a Research Associate at the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. Walter received his B.S. (Economics) and M.A. (Data Science) from Northeastern University.

Teri is currently the Program Director for the Data Analytics programs at Level Education at Northeastern University. In this role, she develops curriculum for new and existing programs, trains instructors and works with students. Teri is also a part-time lecturer in the Supply Chain Management Program at MIT. Previously, she worked at an aerospace startup where she designed and implemented control systems and developed localization and tracking algorithms for antenna arrays. Teri received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from MIT in Mechanical Engineering. Her research involved developing computational models to evaluate the design of new urban areas.

Doug is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Economics Department at Temple University and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). He studies labor economics and the economics of higher education and has published on a wide variety of topics in the fields of labor economics and the economics of higher education, including: earnings inequality, expenditures in higher education, the gender pay gap, the economic returns to college major, and student loan debt. He has testified in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on the topic of student loan policy and higher education finance.