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Marcella Bombardieri is a senior fellow at American Progress. Her background is in education journalism and investigative reporting. She was most recently the education editor at Politico. During her long career at The Boston Globe, she spent five years covering higher education and five years as an investigative reporter on the Spotlight team, where she worked on projects ranging from health care finance to corruption in state government. For a series on judges’ leniency toward drunk drivers, she shared a George Polk Award for legal reporting. Bombardieri also covered the 2008 presidential campaign, was a metro reporter, and did reporting stints in Iraq and Afghanistan. She is a Boston native and a graduate of Brown University.

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‘If You Had a Need, You Got Help’: A Community College President’s Approach Towards Coronavirus In the News

‘If You Had a Need, You Got Help’: A Community College President’s Approach Towards Coronavirus

Author Marcella Bombardieri interviews Russell Lowery-Hart, the president of a community college in Amarillo, Texas, about what challenges students in poverty are facing during the coronavirus pandemic and how colleges are trying to help.

Talk Poverty

Marcella Bombardieri

An Investment for Generations: A Q&A on Advancing Equity in Higher Education Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic Article
A student sits inside a campus building at his college in January 2019. (Getty/Lane Turner)

An Investment for Generations: A Q&A on Advancing Equity in Higher Education Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

Student affairs leaders at California State University, Dominguez Hills, highlight challenges that students and colleges are facing during the coronavirus pandemic—and explain how policymakers can help them persevere.

Viviann Anguiano, Marcella Bombardieri

Congress Needs To Ensure Educational Equity in the Wake of the Coronavirus Pandemic Article
Volunteers and teachers in Boston deliver homework to students as schools shut down amid the COVID-19 outbreak, March 2020. (Getty/The Boston Globe/David L. Ryan)

Congress Needs To Ensure Educational Equity in the Wake of the Coronavirus Pandemic

The federal government must take action in order to address the immediate-, medium-, and long-term fallout from the coronavirus crisis on pre-K, K-12 and higher education.

Viviann Anguiano, Marcella Bombardieri, Neil Campbell, 4 More Antoinette Flores, Steven Jessen-Howard, Laura Jimenez, Simon Workman

Massachusetts excels at higher education — for the white and well-off In the News

Massachusetts excels at higher education — for the white and well-off

Although Massachusetts is the most educated state in the country, author Marcella Bombardieri explains why the state's higher education system works primarily for white, well-off students while leaving Black, Latino, and low-income undergraduates behind.

The Boston Globe

Marcella Bombardieri

Restoring the Promise of Higher Education Article
A student works in a university library in Florida, February 2016. (Getty/Jeffrey Greenberg)

Restoring the Promise of Higher Education

The House’s Higher Education Act reauthorization bill would create a more equitable, affordable, and accountable higher education system.

Colleen Campbell, Antoinette Flores, Marcella Bombardieri, 3 More Victoria Yuen, Marissa Alayna Navarro, Dante Barboy

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