Lisa Sullivan, PhD, is Senior Evaluation Analyst at Resourcing Excellence in Education (REEd) (UC Davis School of Education). She specializes in qualitative and quantitative data analysis, and has research experience in the areas of school readiness, special education, reading assessments and teacher education. Her dissertation research examined the role of social attention in learning and school readiness for preschool children. Lisa was formerly a classroom teacher in Los Angeles and was a Teacher Education Fellow at UC Davis, supervising middle school teachers in the credential program.  Her main area of interest is in working with educators to translate research into practice that will improve outcomes for all students.

Lisa earned her Ph.D. in Learning and Mind Sciences from the University of California, Davis in 2010. She received her M.A. in Educational Psychology from the University of California, Davis in 2006, and her B.A. in Psychology, Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude from University of California, Irvine in 1986.