Allison Crean Davis

Overview

Allison Crean Davis, PhD, is a Vice President for Education Studies and serves as Director for the National Comprehensive Center and Director for the Wallace Foundation-funded National Summer Learning and Enrichment Study. Crean Davis has expertise in partnering with and supporting policymakers, practitioners, and researchers across the educational ecosystem to ensure all children have access to high-quality opportunities to learn and thrive.

Crean Davis leverages her expertise in education, behavioral science, research and evaluation, strategic planning, and capacity building to arrive at unique and effective solutions to challenging problems. She has served as an author and thought leader in the areas of continuous improvement, mixed-methods research, summer learning, social-emotional learning, and Native American education.

Education

• PhD, Clinical Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology
• BA, Psychology and Spanish, Lafayette College