#  Alexis Lassiter 

 

 



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Prior to Harvard, Alexis worked in Education as a Middle Grades Math teacher in inner-city Miami, FL as a Teach For America (TFA) corps member (Pre and Post-Pandemic). She then went on to join staff at TFA supporting Federal Government Affairs from an operations capacity, as well as co-managing their Capital Hill Fellowship. Most recently, she led the fellowship operations at a Policy and Advocacy organization, Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE). Alexis has longed wanted to pursue research as it pertains to racial inequality and its impacts on economic and social mobility, particularly within Black communities. She comes from a majority Black community in Charlotte, North Carolina where her lived experiences has shaped her pursuit to question the inequities that are deeply rooted in our positionality to power. She received her Bachelor's degree in Economics from an HBCU, Winston-Salem State University where she was a Research Scholar at the Center for Study of Economic Mobility.



 

 

 





 

 

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