Kristin De Vivo

Kristin De Vivo is the first Executive Director of Lucas Education Research, founded in 2013 as a sister division to Edutopia at the George Lucas Educational Foundation. LER's mission and strategy, developed by Kristin, focuses on building an evidence base to support transformative practices in K-12 education. Before heading LER, Kristin served as Vice President of Research and Validation at Scholastic Inc., from 2003 to 2013, where she implemented a continuous research and evaluation cycle that strategically improved the company’s blended-model interventions, setting the highest-quality benchmarks for research in educational publishing. Before joining Scholastic, Kristin worked at two Bay Area education-related start-ups, LeapFrog Enterprises and Scientific Learning. Prior to this work, she conducted extensive neuropsychological and achievement testing with young children and adults at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City and at the University of California at San Francisco. She received a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.