Stacey Brockman

Stacey L. Brockman, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Wayne State University. Dr. Brockman spent a significant portion of her career as a high school teacher, teacher educator, and intervention specialist. Through that work, she developed an understanding of how educational policies and environments shape students' college and career readiness and pathways.

Brockman's work aims to advance equitable access to postsecondary education. She conducts partner-engaged research alongside school leaders and policy-makers that informs the implementation of educational programs and policies. Her recent research has examined Detroit high school graduates' college access and pathways; the ways in which career mentoring can shape high schoolers' readiness for college; and the impacts of the Detroit Promise Path community college coaching program.

Stacey earned a Ph.D. in educational studies from the University of Michigan in 2021 where she was a fellow in the causal inference in education policy research IES predoctoral training program. Stacey earned both a bachelor of science and master of science in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University, and a master of arts in education from Stanford University. For seven years prior to graduate school Stacey taught social studies and mentored student teachers as a history teacher, and led academic interventions as an Intervention Specialist at a high school in the San Francisco Bay Area.