Kevin Gee

Kevin Gee is a professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis, where he directs the School Policy, Research, and Action (SPARC) Center and is a faculty research affiliate with the Center for Poverty & Inequality Research. A 2020–25 Chancellor’s Fellow, his research focuses on students who are persistently underserved in education policy, particularly youth facing chronic absenteeism, bullying, food insecurity, abuse, and neglect. He examines how structural adversities impact children’s academic and socioemotional well-being and how school policies can address inequities. His work has been published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Pediatrics, Teachers College Record, Journal of Adolescent Health, and Journal of Adolescence and featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, and Education Week. He was awarded a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship and a UC Davis Hellman Fellowship. Gee earned his MPIA from the University of California, San Diego, and a PhD in quantitative policy analysis in education from Harvard University.

updated 2025