Sarah Winchell Lenhoff

Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Ph.D., is the Leonard Kaplan Endowed Professor and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at Wayne State University. She began her career as a New York City Public Schools teacher. She is the founding director of the Detroit Partnership for Education Equity & Research (Detroit PEER). Her research examines how education and other social policies shape access to educational opportunity in urban public schools. Her recent projects have examined racial equity in school choice policy implementation; the relationship between social inequality and student attendance; and school transportation for mobility justice. She is currently studying how investments in mixed-income neighborhood transformation shape young people’s social networks and, in turn, their educational and economic opportunities. She lives in Detroit with her husband and two children.