Debra D. Bragg, Ph.D. is President of Bragg & Associates, Inc., a research consulting firm centered on creating more equitable education and employment. Dr. Bragg is also an endowed professor emerita of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she founded the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL). In 2016, Dr. Bragg founded Community College Research Initiatives (CCRI) at the University of Washington, and she led that group’s research team through 2019 when she moved to Chicago, Illinois where she now resides.