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Sharon Rowser
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Vice President
Deputy Director, 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 the design, development, and implementation of national demonstrations serving families and children, adolescent dropouts, and other disadvantaged individuals. She currently directs site recruitment on MDRC’s multisite YouthBuild Evaluation and the Maternal, Infant, Early Childhood Home Visiting Evaluation. Rowser previously managed site development and technical assistance on the Supporting Healthy Marriage demonstration, focused on relationship stability for married couples and positive outcomes for their children; Head Start CARES, testing multiple social emotional enhancements to traditional Head Start curricula; and the UK Employment Retention and Advancement evaluation. She managed the RFP process and technical assistance for the national Parents’ Fair Share demonstration, which aimed to increase the employment, earnings, and child support paid by noncustodial parents of poor children. Rowser has coauthored MDRC reports on program implementation. 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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