Rebecca Perdomo
Senior Research Associate (by courtesy)
Rebecca Perdomo is a Senior Research Associate with CMSI and the Proctor Institute. She is also a Co-Founder and Executive Consultant of the SKY Consortium. In this role, she has written reports, created dashboards, and served as a content editor for the University of Georgia’s (UGA) Carl Vinson Institute of Government, Rutgers Center for MSIs, and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). Perdomo uses predominantly quantitative methods to address equity in education with a focus on Hispanic Serving Institutions, funding, and marginalized students.
Using her research to inform policy, she previously served as HACU’s Director of Policy Analysis, where she engaged with stakeholders and used her research to advocate on behalf of Hispanic Serving Institutions and the students they serve. Recognized for its innovative approach to making HSI information accessible to students, parents, and policymakers alike, Forbes featured the HSI dashboard she created in 2021.
Perdomo’s background is in philosophy (B.A, University of Central Florida '15) and sociology (B.A, UCF'15; M.A., UGA '17), and her Ph.D. is in Higher Education Policy and Administration from UGA (’19). She has presented her research at Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Cambio de Colores, the Southern Sociological Society and for American Institutes for Research (AIR), guest lectured at the University of Georgia and Wayne State, and co-authored an article in Race Ethnicity and Education.
