Monica E. Ellwood-Lowe

I'm Monica, a researcher in Developmental Psychology. I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Changing Brain Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Starting in Fall 2025, I will be an Assistant Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

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I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and am a proud Milwaukee Public Schools grad. Thirteen years spent in racially and socioeconomically diverse schools deeply informed how I think about equity and education today, and led me to questions about the structure of schools and society that I haven't been able to stop asking since.

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Before completing my PhD at UC Berkeley, I attended Stanford University, and lived in Stanford's Ujamaa house. I completed an honors thesis under the guidance of Anne Fernald and Virginia Marchman, and then worked as an MRI research coordinator under the guidance of Ian Gotlib.