As a professor at the Linda A. and H. Kent Baker School of Education at American University, Jennifer Steele has spent a decade teaching science-based decision making to policymakers. Author of dozens of scholarly articles, she has worked as a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and has served as a François Chevalier Fellow at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study. Her public writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Hill, Fast Company, The Hechinger Report, Education Week, and Salon, and she has been a television commentator for NBC, CBS, CGTN, and other outlets.