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Dillman Named Senior Researcher at Mathematica
Joins Firm’s Cambridge Office
Media Advisory: September 13, 2010
Contact: Amy Berridge, (609) 945-3378
About Keri-Nicole Dillman: Mathematica Policy Research recently announced the appointment of Keri-Nicole Dillman as a senior researcher in the firm’s Cambridge, Mass., office. In this position, Dillman will draw on more than a decade of mixed-method evaluation experience, including considerable research and technical assistance on community-based and coalition driven social change initiatives.
Expertise: Dillman holds a Ph.D. in public administration from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service. Widely published in peer reviewed journals, her areas of expertise include public health improvement, health disparities elimination, and community revitalization.
Professional Experience: Dillman has conducted research in both private and academic policy research organizations. She comes to Mathematica most recently from MDRC, where she was a research associate lending her expertise to a variety of projects analyzing neighborhood conditions as the target and context for change. She led the development of quality of life indicators and analysis of neighborhood context for the evaluation of the MacArthur Foundation’s New Communities Program, which explores innovative community-building strategies in 16 Chicago neighborhoods.
As associate director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Real Estate, she co-directed an affordable housing research and policy initiative. She also held a variety of research and academic positions at New York University, City University of New York, Abt Associates, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
About Mathematica: Mathematica Policy Research, a nonpartisan research firm, provides a full range of research and data collection services, including program evaluation and policy research, survey design and data collection, research assessment and interpretation, and program performance/data management, to improve public well-being. Its clients include federal and state governments, foundations, and private-sector and international organizations. The employee-owned company, with offices in Princeton, N.J., Ann Arbor, Mich., Cambridge, Mass., Chicago, Ill., Oakland, Calif., and Washington, D.C., has conducted some of the most important studies of disability, early childhood, education, employment, family support, health care, international, and nutrition policies and programs.