Maggie Reeves is director of K–12 education in the Work, Education, and Labor Division at the Urban Institute, where she leads high-impact initiatives at the intersection of education policy and economic opportunity. She coleads the Student Upward Mobility Initiative, which works to identify the skill-based drivers of economic mobility within K–12 education, and she spearheads projects designed to strengthen evidence-based decisionmaking in philanthropy focused on economic mobility. She also holds leadership roles spanning rapid-response policy analysis, school food policy, and integrated data systems.

Before joining, Reeves served as the founding senior director of the Georgia Policy Labs at Georgia State University (GSU), a research-practice partnership leveraging integrated data to drive policy change. Over five years, she built the organization from the ground up, shaping its vision, strategy, partnerships, team, and operations. Reeves also served as senior adviser for research strategy at GSU’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and played a pivotal role in establishing GSU’s Center for State and Local Finance. Across nearly two decades, her career has bridged academia, the state executive branch, and the state judicial branch in pursuit of evidence-based policies that improve people’s lives.

Reeves holds a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies from Emory University and a master’s degree in public administration from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Reeves serves on the board of Park Pride in Atlanta, a local parks advocacy organization, and is an advisory board member for ATL: Advance the Lives. She also is a member of the National Advisory Committee for Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy.