Marissa is a first-year Ph.D student in the Education Policy and Leadership Program. She received B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Statistics from James Madison University and her M.A. in Experimental Psychology from Appalachian State University. She is a research assistant with the Maryland Equity Project. Her research interests broadly focus on early childhood education inequities and program interventions for low-income families. Before beginning the doctoral program Marissa taught Math, Money, and You, a class she developed to focus on personal finance for gifted middle school students, for Duke TIP at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina and Sherman College in Sherman, Texas.

Dean's Fellowship Award