Lorén Cox

Lorén Cox is the Policy Director for the Education and Society Program at the Aspen Institute and also serves as Practitioner in Residence at the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at NYU Law. She held several education policy roles, including the Vice President of Policy and Impact for the KIPP Foundation and Senior Policy Advisor at UnidosUS (formerly the National Council of La Raza). Lorén worked for the Obama Administration in two separate capacities: first as a member of the community solutions team and then as a program examiner in the education branch at the Office of Management and Budget.
Her passion for educational equity stems from her own experiences as a first-generation, low-income college graduate. Lorén was previously a practicing attorney and holds a JD from the University of North Carolina and a PhD in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.