Kelsie Reed

Kelsie Reed is a nationally certified school psychologist who works in Prince George's County public schools in upper Marlboro, Maryland. She graduated from Loyola University Chicago with her PhD in 2020 and was the recipient of two university awards for her dissertation titled Investigating Exclusionary Discipline: Teachers, Deficit Thinking, and Root Cause Analysis. Reed also received awards for her dissertation work through the Society for the Study of School Psychology (SSSP) and the American Educational Research Association (AREA). Reed is passionate about advancing educational equity for minoritized students, disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline, and identifying and implementing alternatives to suspension. She has presented at the community, state, and national levels on school discipline practices.