Jazmin Flores Peña is a Research Assistant with the Migration Policy Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, where she supports the Center’s various K-12 education and early childhood education and care (ECEC) research and policy analysis projects.

Ms. Flores Peña holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University where she obtained her BA in linguistics, with a minor in education, inquiry, and justice, a special interdisciplinary program focused on the intersection of education and social justice. She also holds a master’s degree in education policy and management from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. During her graduate studies, she worked as a college and career intern supporting English Learners (ELs) as they navigate postsecondary education pathways.