Faculty Fellow
Lucy C. Sorensen is a faculty fellow at the Rockefeller Institute and an assistant professor in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany. Her research explores public education and its interaction with human capital development, with a focus on how policy interventions can reduce educational inequality. She uses causal econometric methods with large administrative datasets to evaluate K-12 school policies and examine the determinants of individuals’ academic, social-emotional, and health trajectories. Sorensen recently received a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation and William T. Grant Foundation on Improving Education and Reducing Inequality in the United States, and won the dissertation award from the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) for her dissertation titled, Can a Broader Education Narrow the Gap? Evidence on Non-Academic Features of Schooling. Before joining the faculty at University at Albany, she received her doctorate in Public Policy Studies from Duke University, master’s in Economics from Duke University, and bachelor’s in Economics and East Asian Studies from Yale University.
