Kim Nauer
The New School
Kim Nauer directs the Higher Education Affordability Project at the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School and is the founder of Understandingfafsa.org, a website focused on helping first-generation students and their counselors navigate the FAFSA and financial aid system. Kim and her student team use design and applied research to develop friendly guides and curriculum materials that strive to explain financial aid in a simple way. Prior to her work on the website, Kim founded the Center's New York City public education research initiative and published groundbreaking work on chronic absenteeism, school poverty impacts, district management, and college access initiatives.
