Adam Voight Email and Phone Number

Adam Voight is a national leader in education research and community psychology committed to making schools more effective, equitable, and empowering. He is the director of the Center for Urban Education and an associate professor in the Levin College of Public Affairs and Education at Cleveland State University. Dr. Voight has led over a dozen federal and foundation research grants totalling over ten million dollars in funding and authored over one hundred scholarly articles and conference presentations. He co-founded the Cleveland Alliance for Education Research (CAER), a research-practice partnership between his center, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, and the American Institutes for Research that brings the strengths of each institution to bear on improving district outcomes through research. Dr. Voight also helped create two major student leadership institutes in Ohio--the First Ring Student Leadership Institute and the Ohio State University Student Leadership Research Collaborative--that since 2017 have engaged more than one thousand high school students from over thirty districts in youth participatory action research (YPAR). Dr. Voight earned his Ph.D. in community psychology from the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.