Interviews by level of government, if primarily about one level (click link)
Local
- How results-driven contracting improved outcomes for Chicago’s most vulnerable: Lisa Morrison Butler, formerly Chicago Department of Family and Support Services
- Developing and using agency performance plans: Elizabeth Funsch, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
- Lessons from New Hope for reducing poverty today: Kali Grant, Georgetown University, and Julie Kirksick, formerly New Hope
- King County, Washington’s Equity and Social Justice Strategic Plan: Arun Sambataro, King County
- Lessons in performance leadership from Montgomery County: Dave Gottesman, Montgomery County, Maryland
- Two promising strategies to promote college success for disadvantaged students: Lindsay Page, University of Pittsburgh, and Michael Weiss, MDRC
- Insights from a leading researcher-practitioner partnership, between Stanford University and San Francisco’s school district: Laura Wentworth, California Education Partners
Launching an applied research team within city government: David Yokum, Director, The Lab @ DC - Linking data to improve human services while working within privacy laws: Erin Dalton and Brian Bell, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
- How Seattle used results-driven contracting to improve homeless services: Jason Johnson, Deputy Director, Human Services Department, City of Seattle
- Transforming the culture of procurement in state and local government: Jeffrey Liebman, Harvard Kennedy School
- How states and localities are improving the quality of education, health, and human services through integrated data systems [includes example from L.A. County]: Dennis Culhane, University of Pennsylvania and Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy
- Using school-based health centers to address the health needs of low-income youth: Olga Acosta Price, The George Washington University, Milken Institute of Public Health
- How school districts can use rigorous program evaluation to test new education reforms: Matthew Lenard, Wake County Public Schools, North Carolina
- Using intensive, individualized math tutoring to boost academic outcomes of disadvantaged youth: Jonathan Guryan, Northwestern University
- Lessons from the nation’s first Social Impact Bond, aimed at reducing recidivism among adolescent offenders at Rikers Island: Gordon Berlin, MDRC
- Milwaukee’s three-pronged strategy to reduce teen pregnancy: Bevin Baker, City of Milwaukee Dept. of Health, and Nicole Angresano, United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha Co.
- Las Vegas’s effort to improve traffic safety at its most dangerous intersections: Betsy Fretwell, City of Las Vegas
- Insights from the City of New Orleans analytics unit, NOLAlytics, about using data to improve city services: Oliver Wise, City of New Orleans
- How Allegheny County’s Data Warehouse is improving human services through integrated data: Erin Dalton, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
- How Philadelphia became a leader in the use of data and evidence: Maia Jachimowicz, Results for America
- Using behavioral insights to design smarter school lunchrooms: David Just, Cornell University
- Using food banks to fight diabetes and promote health for vulnerable populations: Hilary Seligman, University of California, San Francisco
- Reducing bullying in schools through a peer-based strategy: Betsy Levy Paluck, Princeton University
- Improving the outcomes of disadvantaged youth by teaching them to be less automatic: Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
- New York City’s VendorStat initiative: Swati Desai, Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York
- The nation’s first Pay for Success initiative for early education: Ben McAdams, Salt Lake County, Utah
- New performance initiatives in Cincinnati city government: Chad Kenney, City of Cincinnati, Ohio
- Strategies for turning around a city government: Andy Kopplin, City of New Orleans, Louisiana
- Creating a results focused city government: Greg Fischer, Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
- How cities are using data to improve outcomes and save money: Stephen Goldsmith, Harvard Kennedy School
- How successful school systems are closing achievement gaps: Greg Duncan, School of Education, University of California, Irvine
- The New Hope anti-poverty initiative in Milwaukee: Aletha Huston, University of Texas at Austin
- Louisville’s performance initiatives, including LouieStat, at year three: Theresa Reno-Weber, City of Louisville, Kentucky
- Local perspectives on PerformanceStat: David Gottesman, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Greg Useem, City of Alexandria, Virginia
- New York City’s Social Impact Bond, the first in the U.S.: Linda Gibbs, City of New York
- Using LouieStat and collaboration across agencies to improve results in Louisville: Theresa Reno-Weber, City of Louisville, Kentucky
- A city’s effort to drive innovation and learning on a priority issue: Kristin Morse, New York City’s Center for Economic Opportunity
- Insights into government performance reporting: Jeff Tryens, New York City Mayor’s Office
- Using outcome based budgeting to fund what works: Andrew Kleine, City of Baltimore, Maryland
- New York City’s small schools initiative: Rebecca Unterman, MDRC
- Creating results-focused city government through SomerStat, Joseph Curtatone, City of Somerville, Massachusetts
- Economic growth and metropolitan areas: Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution
State
- Colorado’s national-leading practices in using evidence to guide budget decisions: Sara Dube, The Pew Charitable Trusts
- How state tuition-free college programs are spanning political divides: Michelle Miller-Adams, Upjohn Institute
- How Minnesota’s impact evaluation unit supports evidence-based budgeting: Weston Merrick, State of Minnesota
- Insights on evidence use from Ohio’s Department of Education: Heather Boughton, Results for America
- Evidence-based budgeting in New Mexico: Charles Sallee, Legislative Finance Committee, New Mexico
- Launching LegisSTAT in New Mexico: Charles Sallee, Legislative Finance Committee, New Mexico
- Insights from Idaho’s Office of Performance Evaluations: Rakesh Mohan, Idaho Office of Performance Evaluations
- Launching a behavioral insights community of practice: Melissa Leal, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- How the California Policy Lab is helping state and local agencies tackle homelessness, poverty and other key policy challenges: Janey Rountree and Evan White, Executive Directors
- The role of North Carolina’s Office of Strategic Partnerships: Jenni Owen, State of North Carolina
- Colorado’s performance management strategy under Gov. Hickenlooper: David Padrino, State of Colorado
- How Oregon’s auto-enrollment IRA program, OregonSaves, helps state residents save for retirement: Lisa Massena, OregonSaves
- How program managers [using an ex. from South Carolina] can use random assignment to build evidence that can improve customer service: Matthew Notowidigdo, Northwestern University
- How the Connecticut Green Bank is catalyzing green energy infrastructure: Bryan Garcia, CT Green Bank
- How states can use ESSA to focus education spending on what works: Tom Kane, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Insights from C-Stat in Colorado at year 5: Reggie Bicha, Colorado Department of Human Services
- How the Rhode Island Innovative Policy Lab (RIIPL) works: Justine Hastings, RIIPL
- How states can use “efficacy networks” to test strategies for school improvement: Thomas Kane, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- How Utah became a leader in evidence-based policymaking: Jonathan Ball and Kristen Cox, State of Utah
- How the State of Mississippi uses evidence-based budgeting to increase return on investment and improve program outcomes: Toby Barker, Mississippi State Representative
- Calling on states to close their youth prisons: Patrick McCarthy, Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Colorado’s Family Planning Initiative: Larry Wolk, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- Colorado’s lean initiative in state government: Henry Sobanet, State of Colorado
- How a small nonprofit in New Mexico achieves big good government wins: Fred Nathan, Think New Mexico
- Leadership insights you (probably) won’t learn in grad school: Joanna Richard, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
- Massachusetts’ juvenile justice Pay for Success initiative: George Overholser, Third Sector Capital Partners
- Apprenticeship as an economic development tool in South Carolina: Brad Neese, Apprenticeship Carolina
- Using “C-Stat” in Colorado to drive results-focused human services: Ki’i Powell, Colorado Department of Human Services
- Focusing a social service agency on results and improved outcomes [KidStat in Wisconsin]: Reggie Bicha, Colorado Department of Human Services
- States’ use of cost-benefit analysis: Gary VanLandingham, Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative
- Apprenticeship as a state and local strategy to enhance skills and careers: Robert Lerman, Urban Institute and American University
- Washington State, a leader in the use of cost-benefit analysis: Steve Aos, Washington State Institute for Public Policy
- The Governor’s Delivery Unit in Maryland: Mike Powell, State of Maryland
- Maryland’s StateStat initiative: Beth Blauer, State of Maryland
Federal
- Three keys to a successful agency evaluation office: Susan Jenkins, Administration for Community Living, HHS
- Lessons from HUD about building evidence on important social policy issues: Calvin Johnson, HUD
- Investing in what works at the federal level: Jed Herrmann, Results for America
- Unlocking the power of big data to catalyze evidence-based policy: Amy O’Hara, Georgetown University
- How HHS’s Data Science CoLab catalyzes employee innovation: Will Yang, CoLab Director, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Why evaluation policies are useful to results-focused federal agencies: Naomi Goldstein, HHS, and Molly Irwin, DOL
- Reforming the federal Experimental Sites initiative to better learn what works in higher ed: Amy Laitinen and Clare McCann, New America
- A primer on the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking’s recommendations: Nick Hart, Bipartisan Policy Center
- An overview of Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth, with lessons for other areas of social policy: Thaddeus Ferber, Forum for Youth Investment
- The importance of replication and validation in evidence-based policy: Tammy Chang, U.S. Treasury Department, and Nathanial Higgins, formerly U.S. Social and Behavioral Sciences Team
- Insights from the only Federal department with two Deputy Secretaries: Heather Higginbottom, U.S. Department of State
- Transforming support services in Federal agencies: Jeffrey Neal, former Chief Human Capital Officer, Defense Logistics Agency and Department of Homeland Security
- Why broadening access to Federal administrative data is critical for improving government services and increasing taxpayer value: Maria Cancian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Test, learn and adapt – How public agencies [incluidng the the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid at HHS] can use researcher-practitioner partnerships to test low-cost, light-touch interventions: Adam Sacarny, Columbia University
- Transforming Federal grant programs from compliance driven to results focused: Robert Gordon, formerly White House Office of Management and Budget
- Creating successful researcher-practitioner partnerships at the Federal level: Dayanand Manoli, University of Texas at Austin
- How one Federal agency strengthened the role of evidence in a key grant program, AmeriCorps: Diana Epstein and Carla Ganiel, CNCS
- How the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education is helping the education field to build and use evidence about what works: Russ Whitehurst, The Brookings Institution
- Using behavioral insights to improve government performance: Maya Shankar, White House Social and Behavioral Science Team
- Strengthening a culture of data-driven decision making: Carter Hewgley, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Connecting decision makers with high-quality research through the What Works Clearinghouse: Joy Lesnick, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
- HUD’s Research Roadmap: Katherine O’Regan, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Implementing a turnaround strategy at DOL: Seth Harris, formerly U.S. Department of Labor
- Insights from the FTC about promoting employee engagement: David Robbins, Federal Trade Commission
- Using analytics to tackle tough agency challenges: Dean Silverman, formerly Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Insights for evidence-based grant making from the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program: Evelyn Kappeler, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Strengthening evidence-based grant making at the U.S. Department of Education: Jim Shelton, U.S. Department of Education
- Implementing a department-wide innovation strategy: Bryan Sivak, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Applying insights from behavioral economics to social service outcomes: Emily Schmitt, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Creating outcome-focused grant programs known as tiered-evidence grant programs or innovation funds: A video overview: Andy Feldman
- The role of a Chief Evaluation Officer: Demetra Nightingale, U.S. Department of Labor
- Using prize competitions to spur innovation in government: Jenn Gustetic, NASA
- Building an evidence base for agency programs: Chris Spera, Corporation for National and Community Service
- Harnessing Silicon Valley funding approaches to drive breakthrough solutions in the public sector: Jeffrey Brown, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Strengthening evaluation capacity within agencies: Naomi Goldstein, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- Boosting results through HUDStat: Lisa Danzig, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- The use of impact bonds around the world: Emily Gustafsson-Wright, The Brookings Institution
- How New Zealand links data from public data sets to address important policy challenges: Kelvin Watson, Deputy Chief Executive, Statistics New Zealand
- Four fundamental principles of evidence-based policy and practice, drawing from U.S. and European experience: Howard White, Campbell Collaboration
- How a UK nonprofit, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), is building rigorous evidence about how to close achievement gaps in education: Sir Kevan Collins, EEF
- Determining if your program is having a positive impact (i.e., impact evaluation 101): David Evans, The World Bank
- Using randomized evaluations to address global poverty and other social policy challenges: Dean Karlan, Yale University and Innovations for Poverty Action
- The first-year effects of Mexico’s soda tax: Barry Popkin, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill School of Public Health
- How Mexico took on the soda industry and won, passing a soda tax: Tina Rosenberg, New York Times and Solutions Journalism Network
- Applying behavioral insights through the EAST (Easy, Attractive, Social, Timely) framework: Simon Ruda, U.K. Behavioral Insights Team
- Innovation teams around the world: Jo Casebourne, NESTA
- Performance budgeting in Austria: Gerhard Steger, Austrian Ministry of Finance