Samantha Cullum

Samantha Cullum is a doctoral student in the Education Policy program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests and work focuses on federal accountability policy, the implementation of ESSA at the state and local level, and how federally collected education data are used to target policy. At EPIC, she is on the Partnership turnaround project focusing on quantitative data analysis. Before starting at EPIC, Sam worked as an Instructional Designer implementing Learning Management Systems in Arlington, VA and as a teacher at the Carolina Center for Educational Excellence assisting teachers with implementing education technology in the classroom. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology and Math from Northeastern University and a master’s degree in Educational Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.