Johanna Bernard

Johanna Bernard (“Hanna”) is a Ph.D. candidate in Education Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on how educational and broader social policies for young children can have sustained effects on skill development. Hanna’s current work includes examining the treatment contrast of a state pre-k program, participating in a cross-sector project connecting early childhood service participation with academic outcomes in early elementary school, analyzing the cost-effectiveness of parenting programs in humanitarian contexts, and studying the longitudinal effects of a literacy curriculum.

She is a pre-doctoral fellow with the Institute of Education Sciences and is additionally a 2024-2025 AERA-NSF Dissertation Fellow. She holds an M.A. in Statistics from Wharton, an M.Ed. in Child Studies from Vanderbilt University, and a B.A. in Psychology from Bowdoin College.