Tyler Hallmark serves as a Senior Program Associate at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, where he helps oversee the Foundation’s grantmaking to effectively expand access and opportunity in STEM higher education. He manages two of the Foundation’s signature efforts: the Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education initiative and the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership. 

Prior to joining the Foundation in 2021, Hallmark earned his Ph.D. in Educational Studies from The Ohio State University. During his doctoral studies, he collaborated on three separate projects funded by the National Science Foundation to examine how to create more inclusive policies and practices for retaining underrepresented students in the geosciences. This work leveraged intersectional frameworks and appeared in the Journal of Geoscience Education and Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. In 2023, Hallmark was lead editor on a book highlighting best practices for better supporting rural students of color, titled Race & Rurality: Considerations for Advancing Higher Education Equity. 

Hallmark is a first-generation college graduate, a former Pell Grant recipient, a Gates Millennium Scholar, and a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation. In addition to his Ph.D., he earned his M.S. in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and his B.A. in Communication from the University of Colorado Boulder