Titilayo Tinubu Ali

TITILAYO TINUBU ALI is a partner in the Policy and Evaluation practice area at Bellwether. She has spent her career at the intersection of research, policy, and philanthropy, and she advises clients on state and federal policy across a range of education topics. She has led work on early childhood education, education funding, assessment, school improvement, educator pipelines, and more. Before joining Bellwether, Titilayo served as senior adviser and senior director of research and policy at Southern Education Foundation advancing policies and practices for students from low-income backgrounds and students of color across sixteen southern states. Previously, Titilayo served as a founding team member and senior research and policy analyst at Learning Policy Institute where she co-led the equitable resources and access team focused on the distribution of financial and other critical resources — including access to high-quality educators, college-preparatory curriculum, and support services — to create the foundation necessary for every child to succeed. Titilayo also previously conducted research and advised professional athletes and artists on education grantmaking at Living Cities, a collaborative of foundations and corporate philanthropies working across sectors to close racial income and wealth gaps.

She is co-author of two books On the Road to High-Quality Early Learning: Changing Children’s Lives (Teachers College Press) and Disrupting Disruption: The Steady Work of Transforming Schools (Oxford University Press) and her numerous briefs and reports have received coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, and more. Titilayo holds an adjunct appointment at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy where she lectures on educational equity, law, and public policy. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Spelman College, a master’s degree in sociology of education and education policy from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.