Cassandra Henderson, Ph.D.
Cassandra Henderson, Ph.D., is a research specialist with the Penn Child Research Center. She focuses on applied, place‐based research in early childhood education and social policies affecting young children and families. Her work is centered around identifying evidence‐based risk and protective individual and familial factors affecting children's educational well‐being, efforts to monitor and cultivate student engagement through school attendance data and social‐emotional learning, and innovative uses of integrated administrative data systems for social policy research. Dr. Henderson earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and her bachelor's degree in English from Duke University.