Amber Stitziel Pareja

Amber Stitziel Pareja is the project director of the Focus on Freshmen Project.  Prior to joining the Focus on Freshmen Project, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.  Amber received her PhD in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University.  Her research interests include: inequality among children in educational achievement in particular and life chances in general; race/ethnicity andsocial class; educational policy, social policy and the interaction between the two; and mixed-methods research.