Vicki Park

Vicki Park

EDS Researchers/PostDocs

Email:
vbpark@ucsd.edu
Phone:
(858) 534-7937


Vicki Park is Assistant Project Scientist in Education Studies at UCSD. She is currently working as the Director of Research on a project funded by the Gates Foundation focusing on youth in poverty who are not on-track to attain a post-secondary credential. Vicki earned her Ph.D. in Urban Education Policy with an emphasis on K-12 leadership and administration in urban school settings from USC Rossier School of Education. Prior to earning her doctorate, she worked as an elementary and middle school teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She received her teaching credentials and M.Ed. from UCLA’s Teacher Education Program.

Her research broadly focuses on the impact of accountability policies on urban schools, student engagement, and the ways in which class, race, and gender shape the academic development of low-income youth.