Megan E. Tompkins-Stange
Megan Tompkins-Stange is a Pre-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Research
Investigator at the National Forum. She is a Ph.D. candidate in
Education Administration and Policy Analysis with a concentration in
Organization Studies at the Stanford University School of Education.
Megan's research interests, broadly defined, focus on change processes
within the social sector, and specifically in both K-12 and higher
education. Her dissertation focuses on how philanthropic foundations attempt to influence public policy, and she has also researched social entrepreneurship, managerialism in the U.S. charter school movement, and public/private hybrid institutional forms in the nonprofit sector. She was a Ph.D. Fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society in 2008-2009.
Megan received a B.A. with Honors from Stanford University and an Ed.M. in Higher Education Administration, Planning and Social Policy from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Prior to starting the Ph.D., she worked in higher education administration at Stanford, including as assistant director of undergraduate admissions and special assistant to the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.