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Pamela Winston
Senior Researcher
Pamela Winston is a senior researcher in human services whose work focuses on programs to support low-income families, in particular private and public service delivery systems, policymaking, contracting, and management.
Her recent research has emphasized the work of faith-based and secular community organizations, and the state and local agencies with which they partner. She also conducts research related to K–12 education programs and policies.
Prior to joining Mathematica, Winston was a research associate at the Urban Institute, a postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins, an administrator in the New York City Mayor’s Office of Operations, a manager of a nonprofit supported-employment program, and a reporter for Education Week newspaper.
Winston is the author of Welfare Policymaking in the States: The Devil in Devolution (Georgetown University Press, 2002), and a range of study reports and briefs exploring federal, state, local, and private social services. She has a Ph.D. in political science from the Johns Hopkins University and an M.B.A. in public/not-for-profit management from Columbia University School of Business.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- The policymaking process
- Nonprofit management
- Faith-based and community organizations
- Programs to support low-income families
- Analytic and Technical Support for Advancing Education Evaluations
- National Evaluation of Living Cities' Integration Initiative
- The Role of State Faith Community Liaisons in Charitable Choice Implementation
- Member, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
- Member, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
- Member, American Political Science Association
- "Fostering Effective Grassroots Partnerships: Lessons from Faith-Based and Community Initiatives." Trends in Family Support Issue Brief #1 (March 2010)
- "The Role of State Faith Community Liaisons in Charitable Choice Implementation: Practice Models from the States" (January 2009)
- "The Role of State Faith Community Liaisons in Charitable Choice Implementation" (December 2008)