Melissa Moritz serves as senior advisor at the Alliance for Learning Innovation and senior advisor at the STEM Next Opportunity Fund and advises organizations focused on expanding access and success in high-quality STEM learning experiences. Moritz previously served as the Deputy Director for STEM at the U.S. Department of Education during the Obama Administration and recently finished a Fellowship where she served as the Afterschool and Summer Learning Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. Moritz graduated from MIT with a degree in Biology prior to joining Teach For America and serving as a middle school science teacher in Washington Heights, NYC. She resides in DC with her husband and two daughters.
Students, families and communities want and need more STEM learning experiences to realize the American Dream, and yet they cannot access them. Prioritizing STEM education must be an urgent priority for the federal government and the Department of Education.
Amid growing global competition in emerging technologies, increasing adoption of automation and artificial intelligence, and economic and national security trends upended by the pandemic, the United States is facing a generational challenge. In the labor market, major shifts that were once the product of future-casting are now squarely upon us, demanding a strategic approach to […]
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