Rachel Slama
Rachel Slama is a research scientist at MIT and co-director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab—an interdisciplinary lab comprised of learning scientists, engineers, and STEM education and simulation experts. Slama directs projects that use digital tools to promote adult learning at scale including a multi-institutional effort to promote the public’s search literacy in libraries, military institutions, and healthcare. Previously, she served as a senior researcher at the American Institutes for Research and has worked as a bilingual teacher in New York City. Slama brings a track record of translating high-impact research into accessible findings for policymakers, researchers and practitioners and has presented her independent analyses at a Senate HELP committee briefing. Slama received a doctorate from Harvard in education policy analysis, an Ed.M. in international education policy from Harvard, an M.S. in bilingual childhood education from Pace University, and a B.A. from Emory University.
