Marlene Saint Martin

Marlene is a Ph.D. candidate in UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies (Ed&IS). She works at the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools (CTS), where she supports the evaluation of California’s Bilingual Teacher Professional Development Program. Marlene’s research informs education policy through evaluation and measurement work in school choice, school finance, and multilingual education. Her dissertation examines how California districts plan and allocate supplemental funding for English Learners, and how those investments relate to students’ English proficiency growth. Prior to UCLA, she worked in impact evaluation in Mexico and Latin America, assessing education and employment programs for government and nonprofit clients. She is committed to research that helps districts and local stakeholders understand what their decisions look like in practice, and put their resources where they will do the most good. Marlene holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s in Economics from ITAM.