Tania (Nguyen) LaViolet

Tania LaViolet is a director at The Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program, where she oversees the program’s Research and Innovation team. Her portfolio includes project teams for the American Talent Initiative, the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, state-based transfer engagement pilots, program evaluation, and the research agendas for major CEP initiatives such as Unlocking Opportunity. She co-founded the Transfer Scholars Network and the Transfer Student Success Intensive with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

She is the lead author of the second edition of the Transfer Playbook and several other CEP transfer publications and contributed to major reports such as Tracking Transfer. Before joining Aspen in 2016, Tania led best-practice research at the Education Advisory Board, where she published work on timely degree completion and strategic allocation of financial aid to encourage persistence of students from low-income backgrounds. Tania holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Oxford and graduated with a B.Sc. in biology from Mount Allison University.