Walker Swain

Walker Swain is an established academic and policy professional currently serving as the AERA/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Congressional Fellow at the American Educational Research Association since September 2023. Swain has held various academic positions, including Associate Professor and Assistant Professor of Educational Administration & Policy at the UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education since August 2017. Prior to this, Swain was a Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant at Vanderbilt University and a Program Management and Evaluation Consultant at Metro United Way. Swain's earlier roles include Graduate Research Assistant and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Duke University, as well as an Education Policy Consultant at MetaMetrics, Inc., and a Middle School Science and Reading Teacher at Jefferson County Public Schools. Swain's educational credentials include a PhD in Leadership and Policy Studies from Vanderbilt University, a Master of Public Policy from Duke University, a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Louisville, and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.