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Sharon Rowser
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Vice President
Deputy Director of the Policy Research and Evaluation Department
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Rowser is Vice President, deputy director of the Policy Research and Evaluation Department, and director of MDRC’s Oakland office. She specializes in program operations and the delivery of technical assistance in welfare-to-work programs, programs for noncustodial parents, employment and training systems, and marriage education services. She currently directs MDRC’s site development and technical assistance in the Supporting Healthy Marriage demonstration. Rowser previously managed the U.S. Department of Labor’s Welfare-to-Work Technical Assistance project and Winning New Jobs, a replication in California of a job search assistance program developed at the University of Michigan to reduce depression and other negative health consequences of involuntary unemployment. She was operations coordinator for the national Parents’ Fair Share demonstration, which aimed to increase the employment, earnings, and child support paid by noncustodial parents of children on welfare. Before joining MDRC, Rowser was a program officer in the Ford Foundation’s Urban Poverty program, where her portfolio included pregnancy prevention, crime prevention, and criminal justice. Rowser received a B.S. in Management/Marketing from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and an M.A. in Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis from the New School for Social Research in New York City.
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