Miriam Kramer, M.Sc., Director

Miriam Kramer is the founding Director of the Canadian Education Project, an independent company committed to access and quality at all levels of the education spectrum for diverse student groups in Canada. She is the company’s lead qualitative researcher, conducting focus groups and interviews across the country as well as spearheading the development of mixed methods for research and managing projects for a number of different clients, including governments and post-secondary institutions. Between 2006 and 2009, she was a Senior Researcher/Policy Analyst at the Educational Policy Institute (EPI), conducting similar research and managing a wide range of projects for a diverse number of clients.

Between October 2000 and August 2006, Ms. Kramer was the government policy analyst for higher education for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG). There she coordinated and trained students and community members in lobbying, media and other advocacy efforts. In that capacity, she produced policy-oriented documents on higher education policy, including Shifting the Burden (2002) and Overburdened (2004), which look at affordability issues in post-secondary education. She was also responsible for budget analysis of the New York State budget and for writing fact sheets and briefs for public consumption based on these analyses. She has also published in the area, including Ten Years in the Making: the Pataki Administration Record in Higher Education (2005). While at NYPIRG, Ms. Kramer appeared regularly in the media and was quoted in hundreds of newspaper articles including the New York Times, guest lectured at dozens of colleges and universities, and participated in panel discussions, forums and coalition meetings.

Ms. Kramer lived in Jerusalem and worked at Kol Ha-Isha, the Jerusalem Women's Center, through a fellowship with the New Israel Fund (1998-2000). There, she helped establish the country's first institute for women's education and empowerment and taught at and was involved in curriculum development for the Kedma School, an experimental community high school for low-income students.

Ms. Kramer earned a Masters in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1998) and a B.A. in English Literature from Queens College, with minors in economics and Business and Liberal Arts (1997).