Kevin G. Welner is a Professor at the School of Education of the University of Colorado at Boulder, specializing in educational policy, law, and program evaluation.

He is Director of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC).  He earned both his JD (1988) and PhD (1997) from UCLA.  Welner's present research examines small school reforms, tuition tax credit voucher policies, and various issues concerning the intersection between education rights litigation and educational opportunity scholarship. 

His past research studied the change process associated with equity-minded reform efforts—reforms aimed at benefiting those who hold less powerful school and community positions (primarily Latinos, African Americans, and the poor).   

Welner received the American Educational Research Association's Early Career Award in 2006 and Palmer O. Johnson Award for best article in 2004.