Helen Zhou is a Research Associate on the National Student Support Accelerator team at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She is passionate about educational equity and the role that research and data play in informing policy decisions and transforming systems.
She holds a B.S. in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University. As a High Road Fellow at Cornell, she worked with Say Yes to Education Buffalo, a nonprofit based in Buffalo, NY, to publish a guide on the Buffalo Commons for reopening schools through trauma-informed and racial equity lenses. Before joining the NSSA team, she was a Research and Policy Associate at Innovate Public Schools, a nonprofit dedicated to building parent power across California. At Innovate, she led research efforts in the San Francisco and Peninsula regions. She researched issue areas such as the disparate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on students and schools to bolster campaigns for change both locally and statewide.
