Dr. Anya Samek
Associate Professor of Economics and Strategy - University of California San Diego
Education Policy Speaker Series
Dr. Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj
Associate Professor of Education – University of California, Santa Barbara
DATE: February 20, 2026, 10:30 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.
LOCATION: Erickson Hall, Room 252
Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on issues of educational access and equity for immigrant-origin youth and other historically underserved student populations. Her work includes exploratory qualitative studies of immigrant and homeless families’ school choice behaviors; experimental research to develop and test interventions to reduce educational inequities; and studies of school leaders’ responses to xenophobia in schools and society and their sense of preparedness to address the consequences of immigration enforcement and racism for their school communities.
