Janet Tran

Janet Tran serves as the director of the Center for Civics, Education, and Opportunity (CCEO) for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. She helped design the Foundation’s non-partisan civic learning portfolio to answer President Reagan’s call for an “informed patriotism.” In 2015, she established the Reagan Institute offices in Washington, D.C., with the launch of Leadership and the American Presidency (LTAP), an experiential leadership program for university students. She is the co-founder of the the inaugural Reagan Institute Summit on Education (RISE), an annual bipartisan education policy that examines the health of our education system. Janet serves on the board of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) as a senior advisor to the Campus Election Engagement Project, and the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) advisory board. Janet’s civic mission began while serving as a social studies and English teacher in Los Angeles. Janet earned her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her master’s of education in curriculum and instruction at California State University, Northridge. Most recently, she earned her doctorate in education learning technologies from Pepperdine University.