Federal Evaluation, Disability Policy, and Human Services Strategy

For more than 25 years, I have worked to improve employment and independent living outcomes for people with disabilities through research, policy, and evaluation. My career has included leadership roles at Mathematica, where I served as Disability Area Director and Senior Fellow, and Westat, where I was Vice President overseeing the Social Policy & Economics Research practice, as well as earlier positions at the Urban Institute and the Lewin Group. Across these roles, I have worked at the intersection of disability policy, program evaluation, and human services.

I have directed some of the nation's largest federal disability demonstrations, including the Promoting Opportunity Demonstration, the Benefit Offset National Demonstration, and the Ticket to Work evaluation, and led multidisciplinary teams of more than 100 staff. My research has been published in the Journal of Public Economics, Medical Care, Social Service Review, and dozens of other peer-reviewed outlets.

I have testified before the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee on SSI benefits for children, served on two National Academies of Sciences panels, and received a New Jersey Changemaker Award for community leadership as Board Co-Chair of CASA Mercer-Burlington County.