Kailey Spencer is a PhD candidate in education policy at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education. She has broad research interests which span policies and practices that impact public education. Her dissertation research examines student mobility in public schools, with a particular focus on comparing student mobility in traditional public and charter schools. Prior to enrolling at UPenn, Kailey received her BA from Hunter College, of the City University of New York, with concentrations in Social Research in Education and Applied Statistics.