Ellie DeWitt

Caroline "Ellie" DeWitt is a PhD Candidate in Education Policy and an IES Pre-Doctoral Fellow. Ellie's research interests lie in evidenced-based problem solving to improve the lives of vulnerable young children and their families using secondary and administrative data sources. She is also interested in early childhood special education and for her dissertation, she is investigating how poverty and access to professionals (i.e., health care and early care and education) moderate the relationship between ethnoracial group and early childhood special education identification. At Penn Early Childhood and Family Research Center (PECF) Ellie has worked on a variety of partnership-based projects with both the city of Philadelphia and the School District of Philadelphia. She received a B.A. in Psychology and Public Policy (both with honors) with a minor in Educational Studies from Gettysburg College where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.