About MDRC

Iguina-Colón works in MDRC’s Economic Mobility, Housing, and Communities (EMHC) policy area. In this role, she has supported and evaluated several projects within community development, public housing, and workforce development, including the Purpose Built Communities evaluation, the MyGoals for Employment Success program, the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program (SNAP) Education and Training program evaluation, and Career and Technical Education (CTE) programming in community colleges. She is energized by the conviction that evaluation and public policy can and should address systemic inequities. Motivated by this principle, she is MDRC’S Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Advocacy Council (JEDI AC) Co-Chair–working to increase communication across the organization and develop initiatives to foster a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization where all employees feel valued. Prior to working at MDRC, she engaged in a range of public policy and research experiences at the federal, state, and local levels: as a Congressional intern, an immigration legal clerk, and a social policy researcher. She is passionate about applying her skills and interest for connecting people, thinking critically and holistically about problems, and developing equity- and human-centered solutions. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
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MDRC Publications
Issue FocusPractical Advice from Richard Guare and Colin Guare
June, 2020This Issue Focus offers guidance to social service programs seeking to help participants progress toward their goals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Techniques are described for alleviating social isolation, communicating remotely, setting and achieving goals, getting medication, assessing workplace safety, applying for public benefits, working from home, and managing grief.
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Other Publications
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Projects
Frieda Molina, Rachel Rosen, Sonia Drohojowska, William Corrin, Gloriela Iguina-Colón, Erika B. Lewy, Hannah Dalporto, Elizabeth Zachry RutschowMotivated by a desire to address both education and wage disparities, policymakers, educators, employers, and philanthropists have increasingly begun to invest in new models of career and technical education ( CTE ) that are based on the premise that all students need postsecondary credentials to adapt to an increasingly complex labor market. No longer simply a stand-...
James A. Riccio, Donna Wharton-Fields, Nina Castells, Stephanie Rubino, Keith Olejniczak, Joshua Vermette, Hannah Dalporto, Gloriela Iguina-Colón, Annie Utterback, Henry KanengiserMyGoals for Employment Success is a new workforce program intended to help recipients of federal housing subsidies who are not employed find work, build careers, and advance toward greater self-sufficiency. The program incorporates an innovative employment coaching model that is informed by current literature in behavioral psychology on executive functioning skills and...
Barbara S. Goldman, Frieda Molina, Donna Wharton-Fields, Stephen Freedman, Richard Hendra, David Navarro, Susan Scrivener, Betsy L. Tessler, Jonathan Bigelow, Keith Olejniczak, Kelsey Schaberg, Gloriela Iguina-Colón, Annie Utterback, Alexandra Pennington, Brandon HawkinsThe Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ( SNAP ) — formerly the food stamp program —is a critical work support for low-income people and families. Although SNAP has included various employment and training requirements for adult recipients to maintain their eligibility since the 1970s, the SNAP Employment and Training ( SNAP E&T ) program was established as...