Dr. Kabay is the Education Program Director at Innovations for Poverty Action and a Research Affiliate of the Global TIES for Children Research Center at New York University. Previously, Dr. Kabay worked with IPA for five years in Uganda, helping to establish the country office there and to manage several education projects. As an education researcher, she uses mixed methods and interdisciplinary research to study early childhood and basic education. Much of her own research continues to focus on basic education in Uganda, where she partners with the Ministry of Education and NGOs to investigate and improve monitoring systems, school management and parent and community engagement. Additional research projects include psychometric analysis of early childhood assessment instruments, cost analysis of the city of Boston's universal prekindergarten program, and qualitative investigation of social emotional learning in Niger.