Kallie Clark is a Senior Research Associate at Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. Kallie received her PhD from the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration as an Institute of Education Sciences Predoctoral Fellow. As a scholar of social welfare and education equity, Kallie’s research examines education systems, specifically how policies and practices within public education systems serve to facilitate postsecondary inequities for students of certain race, ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic status.

In 2017, Kallie published Decoding College: Stories, Strategies and Struggles of First Generation College Students. Decoding College is a college exposure guide that utilizes student interviews to illustrate the financial, social, psychological, emotional, and political challenges first-generation students often face on college campuses. Decoding College is the first college exposure guide to combine resources for students, families and counselors into a single resource. Decoding college is currently used as a college exposure guide in numerous high schools across the country.

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