Lindsey P. Myers is a director and principal program officer and the founding director of the ACE Learner Success Lab at the American Council on Education (ACE). In this role, she leads the Council’s body of work related to student success. A thought leader on new models of postsecondary education, Myers’s work has been featured in numerous media outlets and national conferences.

Myers brings extensive teaching, research, and higher education leadership experience to her work with ACE. She has taught sociology and interdisciplinary courses in a variety of institutional settings (public and private, two-year and four-year, selective and open-enrollment, research and teaching-focused) and instructional formats (face-to-face, hybrid, online, accelerated). She has served as a member of Southern New Hampshire University’s online adjunct faculty for over a decade, keeping her closely connected to the challenges faced by adult, military, first-generation, and other traditionally underserved learners. Her research touches on a number of social institutions and how they intersect, including education, the labor market, and the criminal justice system. Myers has also held positions in community college administration in which she was responsible for evaluating credit programming, institutional research, academic and co-curricular assessment, and supporting strategic planning.

A first-generation college graduate, Myers earned her MA and PhD in sociology from The Ohio State University as well as both an MBA in marketing and a BS in sociology from York College of Pennsylvania.