Saskia Levy Thompson

Saskia Levy Thompson serves as the Program Director of the New Designs to Advance Learning portfolio at the Carnegie Corporation of New York. For the last fifteen years, she has worked at the intersection of practice, policy, and research. Saskia has served as a member of the leadership team at the NYC Department of Education, including an appointment as Deputy Chancellor for Portfolio Planning; as Executive Director of the Urban Assembly, a nonprofit network of high schools serving high-poverty communities; and as a senior staff member at both the Research Alliance for NYC Schools and MDRC, the preeminent national think tank focused on building knowledge to improve social policy.