Andres Fernández-Vergara (he/him)

Andrés is a doctoral student in the Social Research Methodology Division at UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies. As a Graduate Student Researcher at the UCLA Center for Community Schooling, he currently uses statewide and local data to inform and support educational improvement, with particular attention to the way that implementing the California Community School Partnership Program (CCSPP) has influenced schools and districts’ educational practices. His previous work has focused on evaluating educational policies and programs in Chile and Latin America. He is a teaching instructor of Causal Inference and Public Policies at Universidad de Chile. In addition, he is co-founder and consultant at the research-oriented Chilean non-profit NGO ‘Fundación Co-Crecer’.