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Maggie Reeves
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Director, K-12 Education
Project Director, Student Upward Mobility Initiative
Work, Education, and Labor​ Division K-12 Education
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  • Maggie Reeves is the K–12 lead and director of program development for the Work, Education, and Labor Division at the Urban Institute, where she builds and drives impactful initiatives with her colleagues. She is the project director for the Student Upward Mobility Initiative, which aims to identify the drivers of economic mobility within K–12 education. Beyond her work on economic mobility, she serves in leadership roles on school food, integrated data, and child care projects. Previously, Reeves was the founding senior director of the Georgia Policy Labs at Georgia State University, where she built the organization over its first five years and led its impact, strategy, team, and operations. She also was the senior adviser for research strategy for the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Her roles in creating evidence-based policies to improve people’s lives have spanned positions in academia, the state executive branch, and the state judicial branch for nearly two decades. She received her bachelor’s degree in women’s studies from Emory University and her master’s degree in public administration from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. 

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    Work, Education, and Labor
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    K-12 Education Early Childhood
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    Economic well-being School breakfast and lunch School-based partnerships and services Child care and early education

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    Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (University of Pennsylvania)
    National Advisory Committee member
    ATL: Advance the Lives
    Advisory Board Member
    Park Pride
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