Jacob Leos-Urbel joins IESP as a Graduate Assistant. He is a doctoral student at NYU's Wagner School and also a fellow in NYU's Institute for Education Sciences Pre-Doctoral Interdisciplinary Research (IES-PIRT) program. Prior to coming to NYU, Jake was the Director of Policy Research at The After-School Corporation (TASC). He has also worked at The Urban Institute and Abt Associates, and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Namibia. Jake has a MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.