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Ross Wiener joined the Aspen Institute in May 2009. From 2002 to 2009, Ross worked at the Education Trust, a national, non-profit organization dedicated to raising standards and closing achievement gaps in public education. As policy director and then as vice president for program and policy, Ross managed the Education Trust’s research/data analysis, policy development, conference programming, and technical assistance to educators and policymakers in both K-12 and higher education. Prior to Education Trust, Ross served for five years as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section, where he represented the United States in cases dealing with desegregation, harassment, and the adequacy of services to limited-English proficient and disabled students. Ross is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a law degree with high honors from the George Washington University Law School. He clerked for Judge Kermit Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.