Stephanie M. Breen, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. Her research focuses on post-secondary access and success for first-generation, low-income, and historically marginalized students in higher education, as well as equity-minded practices for organizational change in higher education. Stephanie is a proud alumna of the McNair Scholars Program at Suffolk University in Boston, where she earned her BS in History. Subsequently, she completed her master’s in Sociology and Education at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Student Affairs in Higher Education from the University of Maryland, College Park.