Lara Perez-Felkner is a postdoctoral fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago. Her research examines the social context of schools in relation to adolescents’ college and career outcomes, with a particular focus on the mechanisms underlying racial-ethnic and gender disparities in postsecondary educational attainment and entry to careers in STEM fields. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Human Development. Her dissertation was a mixed-methods study of the postsecondary pathways of high-aspiring Latino and ethnic minority youth in Chicago. She received a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and an AERA Research Grant to examine her dissertation research findings using nationally representative longitudinal data. She received a B.A. in psychology from Wesleyan University.

* Formerly Lara Perez-Longobardo