About me
Leah Giannakis Goldsmith is the executive director of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, where she also oversees the North Carolina Education Research Data Center (NCERDC). With over two decades of experience in higher education, including roles at Washington University in St. Louis, McGill University, and the University of Pittsburgh, she has spent 17 years at Duke. A trilingual native of Montreal, she holds a BA in communication studies from Concordia University.