Andrew LaFave, Ph.D.

Andrew holds a PhD in urban education policy from the University of Southern California, as well as a BA in music history and literature from St. Olaf College, and an MEd in curriculum and instruction from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. For more than a decade, he worked in the public education and education policy communities, and has published extensively on the evolving role of big data on school districts and on teachers' classroom practice. At Occidental, Andrew works closely with faculty and students in the social sciences to find innovative ways of leveraging digital tools to produce and present high-impact, accessible scholarship.