Dr. Leslie Rennie-Hill brings over 45 years of experience from a variety of roles in public education. She has served as a teacher, administrator, professor, researcher, and consultant in middle and high schools, community colleges, and university programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Over the past 20 years, she has focused her research and daily work on secondary school reforms and the creation of systems of multiple pathways to college and career for young adults, studying strategies to increase the academic success of college-going rates for historically underserved student populations. She has also led technical assistance teams offering professional development to K-12 and higher education institutions who received grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Aspen Institute, and the U.S. Department of Education.