Kelly Reese

Employability Skills Partnership (ESP), Indiana
Kelly Reese, MPP, is a senior researcher at AIR and leads REL Midwest’s work in Indiana. Reese has 12 years of experience conducting mixed-methods education research, leading teams of researchers, and providing analytic support to clients at the federal, state, and local levels as well as within national nonprofit and postsecondary institutions. She focuses on career and technical education systems and career pathways from K–12 to postsecondary with industry partnerships; college and career readiness initiatives, including programs to help persistence in higher education; early grade to postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics interventions; and teacher professional development systems and programs. Reese is part of the Career and Technical Education Research Network at AIR. She earned a master of public policy degree from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Studies.