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Lori Shorr served in Pennsylvania’s Rendell administration as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and in that capacity lead the administration’s work in aligning academic expectations between high school and post-secondary education. Her work at the state included dual enrollment, transfer and articulation, the Governor’s Commission on College and Career Success, and others initiatives. She is currently Vice President of Policy and Planning at Philadelphia Youth Network, a nationally-recognized non-profit which manages 24 million dollars of investments from government, industry and the foundations community to effect systems change and serve over 10,000 disenfranchised Philadelphia youth through direct programming. Before her service at the State, she was in the Provost’s and President’s offices at Temple University where her work concentrated on local academic alignment issues. At Temple she also was affiliated faculty in both Women’s Studies and Urban Education departments, lecturing on both feminist film theory and educational equity. She continues to publish and speak nationally in the areas of education, equity, and public policy.
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