Michelle Yin is the director of Northwestern University’s Dual Masters Degree Program offered jointly with the Chinese University of Hong Kong and associate professor in the School of Education and Social Policy. Dr. Yin works at the nexus of education and labor economics, with a focus on special populations that include people with disabilities, youth at risk of not graduating from high school, and adult literacy learners. Her exemplary work has been applied in these content areas to provide empirical evidence that informs policy, practice, and advocacy to improve people’s lives. She currently serves as the principal investigator on an intervention evaluation to help youth and adults with disabilities to move from subminimum wage jobs into competitive integrated employment funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Rehabilitation Serices Administration. She also leads multiple efforts to evaluate the impact of Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools on students with intellectual disabilities’ behavior and schooling outcomes, both domestically and internationally. Dr. Yin also serves as a member of the SOI Global Center Research Collaborative and recently developed a global evaluation framework for Special Olympics that will be employed by more than 170 countries to encompass educational and social activities in different countries, languages, and cultures. She is also a co-investigator to study the universal design and accommodations features using NAEP process data, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education. Her work has been published and featured in leading journals and newspapers, such as the Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill.