PhD, 2022 Charles Sanchez is a higher education researcher at Agora Education Research in Rockville, MD. He studies college access and success of underrepresented and historically excluded students. He previously served as a research associate for the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government, where he conducted descriptive and inferential research to measure and contextualize outcomes of the nursing student pipeline within the University System of Georgia. He also previously served as associate study director for several nationally respresentative longitudinal sample studies of high school students at the National Center for Education Statistics. His prior experience also includes research roles at the Institute for Higher Education Policy, as well as the American Council on Education, and for college access organizations including the Georgia College Advising Corps. In each role, he worked with collaborative teams to distill complex education issues, data, and research, for technical and non-technical audiences. Sanchez earned his bachelor of arts in sociology from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, and his master of education in higher education administration (student affairs) from the University of Buffalo. He earned his doctorate from the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia in 2022. While at the McBee Institue, Sanchez completed his dissertation which investigated ways college outreach programs improve college access for students. His dissertation work was generously supported through an AERA-NSF dissertation fellowship. He was the 2018-19 recipient of the inaugural Libby V. Morris Leadership Award.
