Kelley Riffenburgh

Kelley Riffenburgh, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Saint Louis Translational Fellowships in Education program. Her research focuses on educational equity and accessibility, particularly for multilingual learners and students with recent migration histories. Kelley received her Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Teaching, Learning, and Educational Improvement from the University of California, Irvine. She holds an M.S.Ed. in Intercultural Communication from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Linguistics from Haverford College. Prior to her doctoral studies, Kelley lived in North Carolina, where she worked for a Congolese-led educational nonprofit operating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.