Research Assistant
Ph.D., Urban Education Policy, University of Southern California (in progress)
B.S. Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Salomé Otero (she/her/ella) is a PhD student in the Urban Education Policy program and a Research Assistant at the Pullias Center for Higher Education. She is advised by Adrian Huerta in the Higher Education concentration.
Salomé holds a B.S. in Management with a concentration in Education Impact from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she developed a quantitative background she intends to incorporate into her work. She has worked at The Last Mile improving their web development courses for justice-impacted individuals as well as growing their reentry support; she developed a data analytics course at G{Code} for BIPOC women entering tech. Most recently, she conducted research at the MIT Teaching Systems Lab and the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society focusing on advancing equity in STEM education for underserved students. She has volunteered for the Educational Justice Institute at MIT helping to strengthen their curricular offerings and for Code for America developing justice-driven projects.
She is interested in employing mixed-methods to evaluate and design institutional practices to advance access to higher education and educational equity for justice-impacted and Latinx populations. She is dedicated to studying how community, school practices, and policy affect the path to higher education for marginalized students.