Barclay Wohlstetter

Barclay is School Improvement Partnerships’ Social Bond Data Intern. In this role, Barclay helps to develop a best-in-class methodology to determine whether loans or bonds for select American charter schools qualify as Social Impact Bonds (SIB). Since joining SIP, she has taken the first steps by identifying and assessing literature and reports in respect to possible frameworks. She and the other members of the School Improvement Partnership social impact team have collaborated on strategies and chose the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the working framework for the SIB index. Barclay’s key responsibility moving forward in the project is identifying how three chosen SDGs (4, 8, 10) will be applied to the public education K-12 sector. Through careful analysis and in-depth literature review, Barclay will identify key data metrics and support for their implementation.

Barclay began her professional career in research, as without data there is no change. Previous experience includes independent undergraduate research, co-conducting a now published meta-analysis, and most recently, a master’s thesis at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Barclay graduated magna cum laude from Bucknell University (2019) with a degree in Psychology, and a minor in Philosophy. Additionally, she has now completed her MSc in Comparative Criminal Justice at Leiden University.

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