Preeya Mbekeani is an education policy expert with extensive experience leading rigorous research on policies and programs that shape students’ educational opportunities and outcomes. At AIR, she designs, leads, and disseminates findings from large-scale research and evaluation studies of the effects of education policies and programs. Her areas of expertise ...
Gayathri “Gaya” Dowling is the director of the AI Century Study, a 100-year national study of how AI shapes human development, opportunity, and society.Before joining AIR, Dr. Dowling led the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, the largest long-term study of brain development and child ...
Gayathri ‘Gaya’ Dowling, a nationally recognized scientific leader and neuroscientist, has joined AIR to lead the AI Century Study, a 100-year project that seeks to track how AI is shaping human development, education, and opportunity.
AIR partnered with the New Jersey State Library to increase engagement with information literacy education in state policy and support information literacy learning in K-12 and informal learning environments.
Sarah Newman has nearly two decades of experience working at the intersection of U.S. education policy, information technology, and data science. She has extensive experience managing complex, large-scale education data projects and working across every phase of the federal data lifecycle. Newman currently provides consultation on data availability, utilization, and ...
The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) released the “National Evaluation of Career and Technical Education Under Perkins V,” which was conducted by AIR.
AIR is working with the Health Resources and Services Administration to modernize the governing body that oversees the nation’s organ system and address concerns around eroding public trust, transparency, and safety.
Communities face complex challenges that affect both health and safety, including unmet behavioral and mental health needs, housing instability, economic hardship, and exposure to violence. These challenges often increase demand for emergency response systems, health care services, and the criminal legal system. Increasingly, public health agencies and community partners are ...
AIR helps communities, systems leaders, employers, educators, workforce organizations, and policymakers understand and strengthen the conditions that support youth economic mobility.
