Chloe Latham Sikes is a doctoral student in the Educational Policy & Planning program in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Grinnell College, and a M.A. in Curriculum & Instruction from UT-Austin. Her research interests include the intersections of immigration and educational policy, school finance, school-university-community partnerships, policy implementation, and critical policy analysis.
Before returning to graduate school, Chloe worked for four years in college access and university admissions. During her graduate school experience, she has also served with advocacy organizations in Central Texas during the 2015 and 2017 state legislative sessions, and has interned with multiple social and educational policy organizations. Chloe hopes to bring critical research into practice through policy work in academic, political, and community spaces.