the epic team
Emily Mohr
Managing Director, EPIC
emohr@msu.edu
Emily Mohr, MPP, is managing director of EPIC. Emily has spent her entire career working in the education sector. Most recently, Emily served eight years at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), working on strategic initiatives focused on human capital and district research partnerships. In the former role, Emily played a key part in the fundraising for and development and implementation of the district’s new multi-measure teacher and school leader evaluation systems and school performance improvement systems. Emily also led a successful effort to create a human capital data warehouse and launch online reports for school and district leadership to better inform their decision making. She also managed the district’s employee learning management system, which she scaled district-wide. In her role managing district research partnerships, Emily worked extensively to build external relationships that added research and analytic capacity to the district, and helped create systems aimed at using results to better inform policy and practice. Emily received her MPP from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Studies and her BA in Public Policy Studies from Vanderbilt University. She is an Ohio native.
Tara Kilbride
Interim Associate Director, EPIC
kilbrid9@msu.edu
Tara Kilbride, PhD, is the Interim Associate Director at EPIC. Dr. Kilbride conducts and oversees data collection and analysis for several ongoing studies, including research about Michigan’s teacher workforce, student learning and recovery trajectories in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and impacts of state and local policy changes on students, educators, and school systems across the state. She also contributes to collaborative multi-state studies with researchers across the U.S. and works closely with state partners to build institutional knowledge of educational data systems in Michigan and improve analytic capacity. Prior to working for EPIC, she served as the director of a mathematics learning center and a teaching assistant for doctoral-level courses in quantitative research methods and hierarchical linear models. Dr. Kilbride received her PhD in Measurement and Quantitative Methods from Michigan State University and her BA as a dual major in Psychology and Mathematical Sciences from Binghamton University in her home state of New York.
