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Dr. Cipriano’s leadership in the field has been recognized by the US Department of Education, earning her an appointment on the Social and Behavioral Panel of the Institute of Education Sciences in addition to other federal work groups that are informing the future of education research, practice, and policy. Dr. Cipriano’s rigorous and practical cross-sector communication of science is evidenced by her work being cited in multiple bipartisan pieces of legislation supporting investments in US students and educators, countless interviews, podcasts, talks, articles, and mentions in educational media over the past decade, and the honors including the Joseph A. Zins Award for Career Contributions to Action Research (2022), National Voice of Chang in Public Education Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (2023), Research-to-Policy Collaboration Scholar Award from the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center (2024), and the Distinguished Contributions to Human Development Research from the American Educational Research Association (2025).
Chris is a first-generation high school graduate, Yale Public Voices Fellow, Jack Kent Cooke Scholar, and the mother of four beautiful children who inspire her every day to "take the moon and make it shine for everyone".
Dr. Cipriano received her Ph.D. from Boston College, her Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and undergraduate degree from Hofstra University, and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, Teachstone, the Possible Zone, Understood, and the Special Olympics Global Research Collaborative.
Christina Cipriano, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Yale Child Study Center and Director of the Education Collaboratory at Yale University.
Dr. Cipriano’s research systematically advances equitable and inclusive social and emotional evidence, assessment, and interventions, with marginalized students and educators.
An award-winning scholar and internationally regarded expert in the science of learning and development and open science practices, Dr. Cipriano is the PI and Director of numerous major federal and foundation grants supporting the centering of student intersectional identities in research and practice, the development and validation of novel school-based assessments and methodologies, and foundational evidence syntheses. Dr. Cipriano has published 100+ papers, commentaries, and reports, spanning top tier journals such as Child Development and the Review of Educational Research, and media outlets including The Washington Post, New York Times, PBS, Education Week, and EdSurge.
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