Greta Colombi

Principal TA Consultant
National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)

Ms. Greta Colombi is a Principal TA Consultant in the Youth, Family and Community Development program area of the Human Services division at American Institutes for Research (AIR). She has over 25 years of experience in program monitoring and reporting, technical assistance, and research in both the education and the health and human services fields. In particular, over the past 13 years, Ms. Colombi has focused her work on improving school climate and discipline. This has involved providing TA to States and districts on making school climate improvements; working with education and justice leaders to use positive discipline approaches; and developing user-friendly, actionable products. She currently serves as the director of the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. In this role, she oversees technical assistance and product development and dissemination, including online and face-to-face training, website design, evaluation, report writing, site visits, quality assurance and monitoring, training and facilitation, and technical assistance. Ms. Colombi holds a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh.