Andrew Housiaux

Strategic Advisor for Educational Partnerships

Andrew Housiaux is the Strategic Advisor for Educational Partnerships at Opportunity Insights. In this role, he collaborates with teachers, school systems, and national nonprofits to promote deeper learning, heightened civic engagement, and a robust sense of statistical and economic literacy by connecting high school and college students to our research and related curricular materials: the Opportunity Atlas, the Social Capital Atlas, and the resources connected to Economics 50: Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Programs.

Andrew has worked in secondary education for over 20 years at public and private schools in Massachusetts, New York City, and New Jersey. As the Currie Family Director of the Tang Institute at Phillips Academy (MA), he led a range of projects focused on deeper learning and community-based learning, including the first large-scale, multi-year collaboration between Opportunity Insights and high school students. He publishes regularly about teaching and learning — including a co-authored piece with Raj Chetty, Greg Bruich, and Amanda Bayer about the impact of Ec 50 on expanding and diversifying the pipeline of students who study Economics — and teaches in programs for educators at Columbia University’s Teachers College and Penn’s Graduate School of Education.

Andrew has a BA from Columbia University and a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School. He has been recognized for his teaching by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Religion-Luce Foundation, the Klingenstein Center of Teachers College, the University of Chicago, and Harvard College.