Loredana Valtierra is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, having previously served as senior policy advisor in the Biden–Harris administration in the Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Education, where she led multiple K–12 budget and policy priorities for Secretary Miguel Cardona. Prior to her appointment, she co-led the K–12 and juvenile justice agenda for the House Committee on Education and Labor under Chairman Bobby Scott as education policy counsel. Before federal service, Loredana promoted equitable school policy for girls of color and represented pregnant and parenting students at the National Women’s Law Center. She has also represented immigrant children and families and is a former seventh grade English teacher. She holds a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
