Sophie Nguyen is the program associate for the Higher Education Initiative at New America. She works on higher education issues pertaining to college finance, transparency and accountability, and access and success for adult students. She also manages the HigherEd Index, a portal of publicly available data in higher education and supports Varying Degrees, the initiative’s signature public opinion survey.
Nguyen formerly interned for the initiative after graduating from Mount Holyoke College, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in economics.