As Associate Director of Research & Policy, Shengwei contributes to cross-state early care and education (ECE) workforce research and policy projects. The goal is to inform policy solutions that improve educators’ compensation and well-being.
Before joining the CSCCE, Shengwei led research on income security and child care and standardized best practices for quantitative analysis at the National Women’s Law Center. Shengwei also worked on research related to job quality and labor market inequalities at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied the gendered consequences of pay secrecy practices in the contemporary workplace and taught undergraduate statistics.
Shengwei holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park and a B.A. in Politics and Gender Studies from Scripps College.
She enjoys reading, traveling, exploring new recipes, and visiting museums.