Amy Nowell is Director of Research at LEAP Innovations, an education innovation hub focusing on educator professional development, as well as piloting and scaling personalized learning innovations in traditional, charter, and private schools. Most recently before joining the LEAP team, she was an independent consultant for program evaluation and data systems after almost a decade with Chicago Public Schools. At CPS, she led the effort to produce comprehensive school scorecards and designed processes for principal eligibility and evaluation. Amy earned her BA from Boston University and her MA from University of Chicago in quantitative research methods in the social sciences.