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 Susanna Loeb is an associate professor of education at Stanford University, specializing in the economics of education and the relationship between schools and federal, state and local policies. She studies resource allocation, looking specifically at how teachers' preferences and teacher preparation policies affect the distribution of teaching quality across schools and how the structure of state finance systems affects the level and distribution of funds to districts. She also studies poverty policies including welfare reform and early-childhood education programs. Susanna is an associate professor of business (by courtesy) at Stanford and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Contact: sloeb@stanford.edu; (650)725-4262
 Jorge Ruiz de Velasco J.D., Ph.D. Prior to his Stanford appointment, Jorge Ruiz de Velasco served as Senior Program Officer for Youth Programs at the James Irvine Foundation (2004 to 2006), and as Education Program Officer at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (2002 to 2004). Jorge has also served as a Senior Research Associate at The Urban Institute in Washington DC (1997-2002), and as a lawyer and policy analyst for the United States Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (1987-1991), where he concentrated on civil rights enforcement matters involving elementary and secondary schools. Jorge's career has focused on the implications of education reform for disadvantaged students, the effect of immigration on schools and communities, and on civil rights and youth policy. Jorge received his Ph.D. in Political Science (1999) and an M.A. in Education Administration and Policy Analysis (1994) from Stanford University. He earned a J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California in Berkeley (1987), and an A.B., cum laude, in Government from Harvard University (1984). Jorge is a member of the California Bar. Contact: jorge@stanford.edu; (650)725-9209
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