SPEND Team

Annie Maselli

Director of Strategic Partnerships and Field Engagement

Annie Maselli serves as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Field Engagement at the SPEND Initiative. She is an education policy and data infrastructure leader with more than a decade of experience across the federal government, higher education, and the nonprofit sector, and brings to SPEND deep expertise in school finance data and federal statistical systems.

Most recently, Annie served as a Statistician at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), where she advanced the Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) program, oversaw a $22M+ contract portfolio, and launched a multi-state community of practice with State Education Agencies. She has also worked as an independent consultant advising organizations on multi-state education datasets and data strategy, and conducted research on school finance and spatial equity at Pennsylvania State University.

Annie holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Education Policy Studies from Pennsylvania State University, a Master of Education from Vanderbilt University, and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of the South.