Elizabeth Baldo

Project Manager

elbaldo@uchicago.edu

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Elizabeth manages CEHD’s initiative to develop scalable, technology-based tools for measuring early childhood education quality. She coordinates research, partnerships, and day-to-day operations to support the development and use of video- and AI-driven approaches to classroom observation.

Elizabeth has been fascinated by the life sciences from a young age and earned a B.S. and M.S. in Biology from Roosevelt University, where she focused her studies on biochemistry and bioinformatics. Prior to joining the CEHD, she worked for fifteen years in UChicago’s Biological Sciences Division, where she performed molecular biology research in two separate labs and managed undergraduate study-away programming at The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Elizabeth also holds an M.B.A. from University of Illinois, where she specialized in business analytics. 

In her free time, Elizabeth can be found watching Star Trek or reading about various topics in chemistry, physics, and biology.