Angelica Herrera

Partnership Task Lead
Angelica Herrera, PhD, a senior researcher at AIR, serves as the partnership task lead for REL Southwest. In this role, she oversees research-practice partnerships in the five states that REL Southwest serves. Herrera has significant experience in leading research-practice partnerships, providing coaching and training on education practices to state and local education agencies, and leading research and evaluation studies. For the 2017-22 REL Southwest, she served as the Task 3 lead, principal investigator on a quasi-experimental study in Texas on a school reform approach, and as a project director for a series of coaching projects in New Mexico on best practices for improving instruction for English learner students. Herrera’s areas of expertise include culturally responsive practices and logic models to plan, implement, and evaluate programs and policies. Herrera holds a doctorate in developmental psychology from the City University of New York. She is fluent in oral and written Spanish.