Stephanie Dean
Director of Research and Policy Analysis
919.425.4181
sdean@hunt-institute.org
Stephanie leads the Hunt Institute’s Research and Evaluation Team with more than a decade of experience in education and education policy. She is responsible for authoring the first several issues of Blueprint, the Institute’s policy primer for state leaders. Stephanie establishes liaisons with research partners and manages the Institute’s commissioned research activities. She conducts policy research to produce content for Institute publications and events, inform Institute strategic planning activities, and foster information sharing among partner organizations.
Stephanie joined the Hunt Institute as a program coordinator in 2006, and planned the 2007 Governors Education Symposium. Prior to the Institute, Stephanie was the grant manager of education programs for United Way California Capital Region in Sacramento and worked on the Success By 6® early childhood initiative in Portland, Oregon. As a Teach For America corps member, she taught fourth grade in Mississippi and later served as the organization’s director of special projects for Eastern North Carolina. Originally from California, Dean earned her master’s degree from Duke University.