Postdoctoral Fellows

Juan B. Cortes, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the St. Louis Translational Fellowship in Education. His research broadly focuses on examining how inequality develops in educational outcomes as students navigate through systemic structures. His recent work has involved improving early-warning indicators that identify middle and high school students in need of support as […]

Kelley Riffenburgh, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Saint Louis Translational Fellowships in Education program. Her research focuses on educational equity and accessibility, particularly for multilingual learners and students with recent migration histories. Kelley received her Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Teaching, Learning, and Educational Improvement from the University of California, […]

Mitchelle Wambua is a mathematics education researcher and teacher educator who works at the intersection of research and practice. She leads and works with researcher and practitioner teams to simultaneously translate mathematics education research for practical use in schools and classrooms, and practical knowledge (e.g., what high-quality math instruction looks like, sounds like, and feels […]