Kaley Ciluffo

Kaley is a current Ph.D. student in Critical Psychology. In 2021, she earned her M.S. Ed at the University of Pennsylvania with distinction. Prior to matriculating at Penn, Kaley earned her B.A. and Master of Political Science from Villanova University in 2020. Kaley’s research continues to build the Healing-Centered Mentorship framework that emerged from her master’s thesis. She seeks to understand, broadly, how students may achieve posttraumatic growth in unconventional ways, how educators might agitate fixed perceptions of identities, and how to push institutions, typically uncaring spaces, toward courage for our most vulnerable and marginalized. At SAGE Scholars, Kaley is responsible for running the Newsroom and producing short form content. She also maintains clear communications over social media and marketing among member colleges and works in various capacities with the college relations department. In her spare time, Kaley is the lead student editor of Penn GSE’s peer-reviewed journal, Perspectives on Urban Education.