Dr. Emily K. Penner is Associate Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. Penner is a William T. Grant Scholar and formerly a Jacobs Foundation Young Scholar and National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on K-12 education policy, and considers the ways that districts, schools, teachers, and families contribute to and ameliorate educational inequality. Penner received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Education from the University of California, Irvine and her B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College.