Rebecca Perdomo

Rebecca Perdomo is a Research Professional for UGA’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government. In this role she works on projects for various organizations and government entities, such as Georgia’s Department of Early Care and Learning.

As a consultant, Perdomo has written reports, created dashboards, conducted quantitative and qualitative research, and served as a content editor for the University of Georgia's (UGA) Carl Vinson Institute of Government, Rutgers' Center for MSIs, the Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice<, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), Leve All, and eSource Technologies. Perdomo uses predominately quantitative methods to address equity in education with a focus on Hispanic Serving Institutions, funding, and marginalized students. She also focuses issues such as equity in faculty hiring, and immigrant and migrant student policy.

Using her research to inform policy, she previously served as HACU's Director of Policy Analysis, where she engaged with stakeholders and used her research to advocate on behalf of Hispanic Serving Institutions and the students they serve. Forbes Magazine recognized the HSI dashboard she created in 2021 for its innovative approach to making HSI information accessible to students, parents, and policymakers.

Perdomo has presented her research for the Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institution Educators (AHSIE),the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Cambio de Colores, the Southern Sociological Society and for American Institutes for Research (AIR), and guest lectured at the University of Georgia, the University of Florida, and Wayne State.

Perdomo's background is in philosophy (BA, University of Central Florida '15) and sociology (BA, UCF '15; MA, UGA 17) and her PhD is in Higher Education Policy and Administration from UGA '19.

She had served as data analyst at Ingenuity where she performed complex data analysis to advance equity and access in arts education for public school students in the Chicago area.

Rebecca was a graduate endowed scholar through UGA’s Alumni Association and a research assistant for the UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government. Under the direction of John Barner and Theresa Wright (PhD 2011) at CVIOG, she engaged in survey research and data evaluation developing instruments for an array of clients.

Working with Karen Webber, Perdomo used national data to address issues affecting student retention in the STEM pipeline and presented on their preliminary analysis of STEM oriented extracurricular activity on college major choice, at the interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference and at the AAC&U STEM conference. Perdomo has also presented at the Southern Sociological Society Conference, as well as ASHE and Cambio de Colores. She spent the summer of 2017 in Washington D.C. working as the government relations intern for the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. Her research interests span issues of racial stratification and inequality in higher education, with a focus on policy and Hispanic-Serving Institutions.

Rebecca Perdomo holds a B.A. with a double major in sociology and philosophy from the University of Central Florida and an M.A. in sociology from UGA.

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