About MDRC
Angela The works as a data programmer in MDRC’s Family Well-Being and Children’s Development policy area. She performs SAS programming and other technical tasks for the implementation and impact analysis of the Building Bridges and Bonds (B3) Evaluation, a study of community-based fatherhood programs. Angela also works on the operations team for the VIQI project, a national early child care and education study, as well as on the data collection efforts for Child First, a comprehensive home visiting study.
Prior to joining MDRC, Angela was a research assistant for the Research on Individuals, Politics, and Society (RIPS) Lab at Vanderbilt University, and an undergraduate researcher in the Mass Incarceration Lab for Undergraduates. She also worked at Project Return, a post-incarceration reentry organization in Nashville, and interned at the Public Policy Institute of California. She received her bachelor’s degree in public policy studies (criminal justice track) and violin musical arts from Vanderbilt University, and will be pursuing a master’s degree in computational analysis and public policy in the fall of 2021 at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.
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Projects
JoAnn Hsueh, Michelle Maier, Frieda Molina, Samantha Wulfsohn, Marie-Andrée Somers, Electra Small, Sharon Huang, Amena Sengal, Alexandra Bernardi, Marissa Strassberger, Noemi Altman, Ilana Blum, Ebony Scott, Margaret Hennessy, Mervett Hefyan, Mallory Undestad, Angela The, Sharon Rowser, Amy TaubThe Variations in Implementation of Quality Interventions ( VIQI ): Examining the Quality-Child Outcomes Relationship in Child Care and Early Education project is a large-scale, rigorous study with several important aims and implications for current child care and early education policy and practices, including:
Determining the effectiveness of interventions for...Virginia Knox, Meghan McCormick, Sharon Huang, Samantha Xia, Jocelyn Page, Angela The, Mervett HefyanChild First is a comprehensive, home-based, therapeutic intervention that targets young children and families with multiple risks and connects them with the services they need to support healthy child development. An earlier randomized controlled trial of Child First in one location showed that the program improved children’s social-emotional skills and language...
Dina A. R. Israel, Michelle S. Manno, Dan Bloom, JoAnn Hsueh, Charles Michalopoulos, Virginia Knox, Erika Lundquist, Electra Small, Rebecca Behrmann, Samantha Wulfsohn, Ann Bickerton, Douglas Phillips, Patrizia Mancini, Emily Brennan, Jillian Verrillo, Bret Barden, Kureem Nugent, Angela TheFathers play a unique role in their children’s lives and development, but some fathers face personal or societal barriers to positive involvement with their children — such as low levels of education, stigma from criminal records, declining wages for low-skilled men, or family instability. Responsible Fatherhood programs aim to improve the well-being of low-income...