Titilayo Tinubu Ali is a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Her teaching and research interests are at the intersection of education law, policy, and practice with a focus on early childhood, constitutional and administrative law, regional disparities in educational opportunity, with a focus on the American South; and the role of public understanding and media framing in shaping education policy.

As a Partner at Bellwether, a national nonprofit that serves the education sector, she leads projects on early childhood policy, education funding, educator workforce issues, and school improvement. She advises families and individuals, foundations, nonprofit organizations, and corporations on education philanthropy. Previously, she served as Senior Adviser and Senior Director of Research and Policy at the Southern Education Foundation, and she was a founding team member and Senior Research and Policy Analyst at the Learning Policy Institute, where she co-led the equitable resources and access team and conducted early childhood research.

She is the co-author of two books, On the Road to High-Quality Early Learning: Changing Children’s Lives (Teachers College Press) and Disrupting Disruption: The Steady Work of Transforming Schools (Oxford University Press). She previously served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy, where she taught a seminar on education equity, law, and public policy.

Ali earned her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, an M.A. in the sociology of education and education policy from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a B.A. in English from Spelman College.