Marissa Thompson

Marissa E. Thompson is a doctoral candidate in Sociology of Education and Education Policy at Stanford University. She is an Institute of Education Sciences (IES) fellow and a recipient of the Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF) in Science and Engineering. Using quantitative and quasi-experimental methods, she studies racial and socioeconomic inequality in education, with a particular emphasis on postsecondary access and outcomes. She holds an M.A. in Sociology (2019) from Stanford, and a B.S.E. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (2016) from the University of Pennsylvania.