Sarah Peko-Spicer

Senior Researcher

Sarah Peko-Spicer is a senior researcher at AIR. She has extensive expertise in methods related to cluster randomized trials, optimal design of experiments, replication, and meta-analysis. Her primary areas of interest including social emotional learning, youth development, and civic engagement. She currently serves as the project director for the AIR Opportunity Fund-supported project Do Social and Emotional Learning Programming and Strategies Work for All Students? A Participatory Evidence Synthesis and the co-principal investigator for two Department of Education-funded program evaluations of a school-based youth participatory action research (YPAR) curriculum. 

Prior to AIR, Dr. Peko-Spicer worked as a data analyst for Pittsburgh Public Schools. 

Sarah Peko-Spicer
Ph.D., Statistics, Northwestern University
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