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John Martinez
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Senior Associate
Health and Barriers to Employment Policy Area
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Martinez is an expert in site development, site selection, and evaluation start-up, primarily focusing on programs that serve populations with barriers to employment, including youth. Currently, he is a senior member of the Youth Transition Demonstration (YTD) team, overseeing the development and implementation of the process analysis. He played a lead role in site development activities and led a task force that oversaw the roll-out of three new sites that joined the YTD project. He is also the deputy project director of the TANF/SSI project. In earlier work at MDRC, Martinez was a site development leader for the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration project and the leader for two Employment Retention and Advancement program sites. He managed an assessment of health and health care issues confronting low-income urban women as part of the Project on Devolution and Urban Change and coauthored a report detailing its results. Martinez has presented research findings at national conferences and to local and federal program partners. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Youth Employment Coalition in 2009. Prior to joining MDRC, Martinez conducted research in a substance abuse treatment center and in a community health center with patients with schizophrenia. He began his career as a food stamp eligibility worker. Martinez received a master of public health degree from Columbia University.
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MDRC Publications
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