Dr. Elizabeth Chu

Biography

Elizabeth M. Chu is the Executive Director of the Columbia Center for Public Research Leadership and a senior research scholar at Columbia Law School. In her role at the CPRL, she focuses on preparing graduate students to work with clients and utilize Evolutionary Learning to enhance the education sector's capacity to better serve children, especially those who are traditionally underserved. Before joining CPRL, she was an Assistant Professor of Practice at Relay Graduate School of Education, where she taught general pedagogy courses, designed and managed internal data collection systems, and conducted research on school discipline, teacher preparation, and social-emotional learning. Elizabeth began her career in education as a middle and high school English teacher in the South Bronx. She earned her PhD in educational policy from Teachers College, Columbia University, and holds a Master's degree from Pace University in secondary English instruction, as well as a Bachelor's degree in English language arts and literature from Yale University.

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