Mahreen Alam is a graduate student at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs pursuing a Masters in Public Policy. Her area of focus is education policy as well as innovation and urban development. Her research interests include reforms to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and education technology that closes the digital divide and provides better opportunities for vulnerable communities. Mahreen graduated from the University of California Irvine with a degree in political science. After graduating, she worked as a financial data analyst for the department of state hospitals, and after she joined a civil rights nonprofit where she worked as a community organizer for immigrant communities around the greater Los Angeles region. After graduation, Mahreen hopes to continue her work in reform in the education policy space with a focus on K-12 schools in California.