Conversation Starter: How do we better communicate our policy priorities to teachers and parents? Paige Kowalski is the Executive Vice President for the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) where she manages efforts to support state policymakers in understanding their roles and responsibilities in supporting effective data use at all levels. She leads a team of professionals to develop DQC’s Data for Action state survey, provide direct policy assistance to states, identify emerging issues, and connect data use to current policies and practices. Prior to leading DQC’s state policy efforts, she led DQC’s work to inform state and national teacher effectiveness policies and supported state efforts to effectively implement data-related provisions of the 2009 federal stimulus act. Kowalski received her bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of California, Davis, and earned a master’s degree in public policy from The George Washington University, where she focused on education policy.