Alexis Lassiter is a recent graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she earned her master’s in education policy and analysis. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, she received her B.S. in economics from Winston-Salem State University — #HBCUPride. At HGSE, Alexis was awarded the Leadership in Education Fellowship, a merit-based award recognizing her potential to drive meaningful change in the field. She also served as an Equity & Inclusion Fellow, supporting organizational change efforts through research, strategy, and stakeholder engagement. In addition, she concluded her program honored with the Intellectual Contribution Award for her academic excellence and impact within her cohort.
Before graduate school, Alexis held program and strategy roles at Teach For America and Leadership for Educational Equity, where she worked to advance educational equity through leadership development, community engagement, and public policy. Her work sits at the intersection of policy, identity, and structural inequality. Drawing on her economics training and experience across the education and nonprofit sectors, she uses data to interrogate how narratives of merit, deservingness, and belonging shape institutional outcomes. She is currently a research fellow at the Harvard Project on Workforce and preparing to apply to Ph.D. programs in economic sociology and organizational theory.