Meg Nipson is a research manager at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, where she works with school systems and state education departments to help them answer policy-relevant questions using their own data. She currently works on CEPR’s multi-state textbook evaluation initiative, and she has led human capital and college-going diagnostic research collaborations for the Strategic Data Project in Boston, Delaware, New York, Cleveland, and Kentucky. Before joining CEPR, she worked at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, where she focused on low-income housing policy and rental affordability, and at Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Her previous experience was as a group manager and project administrator for the Harvard Institute for International Development. Meg has an M.S. in finance from Brandeis University and a B.A. in mathematics from Harvard University.