Fran Kipnis

Fran Kipnis is an analyst with California Education Partners. She supports the Stanford–San Francisco Unified School District Partnership and the Stanford–Sequoia K–12 Research Collaborative. Kipnis was previously a senior specialist at the University of California, Berkeley, leading studies on early childhood workforce development and higher education access for early childhood educators. She is a former research director at the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network, managing statewide studies on child care services. She also worked as a consultant and program officer for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, overseeing early childhood grant-making initiatives. Kipnis has had a 30-year career in early childhood education research, focusing on the supply and demand of child care services in California and on issues related to the early childhood workforce, such as wages, benefits, and access to education and training. She earned her BA in political science and government from Oberlin College and an MA in political science and government from San Francisco State University.

updated 2025