Jillian Verrillo
Jillian
Verrillo
Editor, Publications

Verrillo serves in a cross-functional role at MDRC. She participates in interdepartmental efforts to identify and promote efficiencies in the proposal and report production processes, provides training on report production and fact-checking, develops graphics products, and is a project manager for deliverables in the Youth Development, Criminal Justice, and Employment policy area. She is currently building a website to host organization-wide proposal efforts, and is overseeing the dissemination of studies connected to the Building Evidence on Employment Strategies for Low-Income Families (BEES) and Building Bridges and Bonds (B3) evaluations. Verrillo has fifteen years of experience in project management, editing, writing, and video postproduction. Prior to joining MDRC, she worked as an editor at HarperCollins Publishers, where she acquired and edited fiction, wrote promotional copy, negotiated contracts, and oversaw production of several dozen books a year. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and a bachelor’s degree in media arts and design from James Madison University.