Sharon is an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Quantitative Methods at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. Prior, she was a postdoctoral research scientist at the Global TIES for Children research center at New York University and a National Poverty Fellow with the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was in residence at the US Department of Health and Human Services. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Psychology with a concentration in Quantitative Analysis from New York University in 2014. Her research focuses on the roles of families and school in supporting children’s learning and developmental globally.