Elc Estrera supports K-12 practitioners and policymakers in leveraging research and data to make evidence-based decisions. 

He works with data measured at a variety of levels and intervals, including: administrative longitudinal data (e.g., monthly, annual), survey data, and "click-stream"/event data. He strives to repurpose these data in ways that can inform the development of practices and policies that positively impact students and employees. He also brokers partnerships between K-12 practitioners and research professionals at universities and research firms (i.e., research-practice partnerships). 

Substantively, he is interested in educator workforce topics (e.g., teacher and leader retention/turnover, the pipeline into school leadership, housing costs and teacher intent to stay). With prior experience as a Teach For America teacher in a turnaround high school in post-Katrina New Orleans, he is also interested in graduates' post-secondary transitions into college and the workforce.

Elc was a Data Fellow with the Strategic Data Project at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University. He earned a PhD in public policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MPP from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.