Rita Axelroth Hodges

Rita Axelroth Hodges has worked as a consultant in the fields of education policy, university engagement, and community development. Currently serving as Assistant Director for the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, she has been the lead writer of Netter Center annual reports. Rita is also the author of The Community Schools Approach: Raising Graduate and College-Going Rates: Community High School Case Studies (a publication of the Coalition for Community Schools) and (with Steve Dubb) The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads (published by the Democracy Collaborative, December 2010).