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Holcomb Named Senior Researcher at Mathematica
Joins Firm’s Washington, D.C., Office
Media Advisory: June 7, 2010
Contact: Amy Berridge, (609) 945-3378
About Pamela Holcomb: Mathematica Policy Research recently announced the appointment of Pamela Holcomb as a senior researcher in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. In this position, she is conducting research primarily in the areas of family support and labor/workforce development.
Expertise: Holcomb completed Ph.D. coursework at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn., where she also earned an M.S. in applied history and social science. Her primary area of expertise is implementation research, and she has directed and/or participated in numerous studies examining welfare reform implementation and strategies to improve the economic conditions of low-wage workers.
Professional Experience: Holcomb was employed for more than two decades at the Urban Institute, where she conducted research covering a wide range of policy areas affecting low-income families, including workforce development, welfare reform, food and nutrition, child care, child support, and the delivery of services and benefits. She also held a two-year placement at the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and worked on welfare reform policy issues.
Holcomb left the Urban Institute in 2007 to become the managing director and, most recently, the interim executive director of the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization (CPRO), a community-based, nonprofit organization engaged in economic revitalization and community development activities. During that time she participated in Arlington's 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness and was the chair of its Integrated Services Committee. Holcomb is also a member of the Arlington County Community Development Citizen’s Advisory Committee, which advises on development and implementation of the Community Development Block Grant Program and the Community Services Block Grant Program. She is one of 40 community leaders participating in the 2010 Class of Leadership Arlington. She served two terms on the Commonwealth of Virginia Governor’s Advisory Board for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.
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 family support, labor, health care, early childhood, disability, education, employment, international, and nutrition policies and programs.