Fellow Spotlight

When we began our journey as SDP Fellows, we were asked to share a surprising fact about ourselves. While my background is in economics, one fact that often surprises people about me is that I majored in Asian Studies in college. My grandfather was born...

The very question that has shaped my time in SDP, “why me?”, is also something all of us have asked ourselves on the paths that brought us to the fellowship. So let me try to answer it for us. Why me? After hearing many of my cohort’s leadership stories...

Over the past two years of this fellowship cohort, we’ve been on a journey together: learning new systems, building new relationships, and discovering the ways data—and the humans behind it—can transform education. As a classroom teacher, I was once asked...

This September, Cohort 14 SDP Fellows concluded their time with the Strategic Data Project and looked back on their time as fellows and their impact at their agencies. These fellows worked in their organizations on strategic data projects from Fall 2022...

SDP Senior Programs Manager Rebecca Marshall highlights the impact of cohort 12 fellows upon their graduation (fall 2020 – summer 2022) On September 1 st, 2022, the 12 th cohort of the Strategic Data Project Fellows completed their fellowship programming...