Alycia Hardy was a senior policy analyst with the child care and early education team at CLASP. She worked with quantitative and qualitative federal and state data to help strengthen policies that support children, families, and the child care workforce and led and supported developing policy recommendations, conducting research, and performing data analyses to advocate for systemic changes related to access, wages, quality, and affordability.

Prior to joining CLASP, Alycia advocated for equitable and accessible school and wraparound support services for Head Start families as a community representative for the District of Columbia Public School’s Head Start parent policy council. She has also served as the data collection and evaluation manager, to the U.S. Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Magnet School Assistance Program. In her role, Alycia used administrative and program outcome data to tailor technical assistance needs for grantee school districts, with a focus on increasing magnet school diversity, accessibility, and quality. Additionally, she was the data assistant at Communities In Schools, where she supported analyses of qualitative and quantitative student, school, and district data to help meet the needs of students through integrated community resources.

Alycia received her B.A. degree in Political Science from Morgan State University and her M.P.A from American University.