Ellen Stone gathers, verifies, and analyzes data for all of Texas Appleseed’s projects. Prior to joining Texas Appleseed, Ellen worked as a doctoral researcher in the Social Inequality in Development Research Group at The University of Kentucky, focusing on both qualitative and quantitative research designs across development. In addition, Ellen has taught a course on research methods and, as such, is passionate about communicating statistics to broad groups of people and data-driven policy decision-making. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from The University of Kentucky. 

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