Sarah Cohodes is an Associate Professor of Education and Public Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University, and chair of the Columbia Committee on the Economics of Education. Her research uses quantitative causal inference methods to evaluate programs and policies that have the potential to ameliorate achievement gaps. She is particularly interested in how young people and their families make choices about education and how school and college quality interact with those decisions. One of her current major projects uses a randomized trial to investigate simple interventions to help middle school students and their families in NYC navigate the high school choice process, and another project looks at the influence of an intensive summer programming in STEM on students college choices and academic trajectories. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University.