Dr. Amber Villalobos is a fellow at The Century Foundation working on higher education policy with a focus on college accountability, college affordability, and online higher education. Her research and opinions have been featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, Inside Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Hechinger Report, and USA Today. Her research has also been published in the academic journals The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Social Forces, and Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. Dr. Villalobos received her PhD and MA in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles and her BA in sociology from The University of Texas at Austin. She was previously an elementary school teacher in her home region of the Texas Rio Grande Valley, and she is passionate about educational equity at every level of schooling.