Emily Reich

Emily Reich (she/her) is a third-year doctoral student in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster in UC Berkeley's School of Education. Her current research agenda investigates the expansion of Israeli curriculum into East Jerusalem. More broadly, she is interested in using qualitative methodologies to capture how education policies unfold in practice. Her additional research projects include studying California schools' utilization of COVID-19 relief funding and examining community mobilization around the implementation of CA's ethnic studies curriculum for high schoolers. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she taught Special Education in California, New York City, and Israel. Her work has been supported by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. She received her B.S. in Special Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds a California teacher credential.