Michelle Lucas, Ph.D.

Michelle Lucas

Evaluation Analyst
Austin Independent School District
Ph.D. Human Development

Michelle received her PhD in Human Development from UC Davis in 2017 and was a postdoc at UT Austin from 2017-2019. She is currently working as an Evaluation Analyst I at Austin Independent School District (AISD), where she plans and conducts program evaluations for the Multilingual Education Team and Creative Learning Initiative. She has published 4 evaluation reports in her time at AISD (among 16 total publications) and launched an innovative “data party” with stakeholders to disseminate her findings. She has been awarded both national and international grant funding for her independent research proposals throughout her graduate and postgraduate career.