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Mathematica Appoints Four Senior Fellows
Recognition Denotes National Expertise in Policy or Research Field
Media Advisory: August 9, 2010
Contact: Amy Berridge, (609) 945-3378
Appointments: Mathematica Policy Research recently appointed Mary Kay Fox, Brian Gill, Steven Glazerman, and Christopher Trenholm as senior fellows.
Mary Kay Fox joined Mathematica in 2005 as a senior researcher specializing in food and nutrition assistance policy. She serves as area leader for nutrition and supervisor of human services analysts in the firm’s Cambridge office. Her research includes the design and implementation of key studies on the nutritional content of meals served in the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program. An expert in factors that contribute to childhood obesity, she recently served on two committees of the Institute of Medicine. The final report produced by one of the committees is widely regarded as the blueprint for changes to school meals that will occur over the next decade in response to children’s increasing obesity and inadequate dietary patterns, and Fox was committee spokesperson for the report. She publishes widely in peer-reviewed journals. She holds a master’s in nutrition education from Tufts University.
Brian Gill joined Mathematica in 2007 as a senior social scientist, and he currently serves as an associate director of human services research in the firm’s Cambridge office. He is a nationally recognized expert in K-12 education policy, including charter schools, private management of public schools, teacher performance measurement, district-wide instructional reform, and homework. Widely published, his publications include the often-cited “Rhetoric vs. Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools.” He has received several awards, including an Alumni Achievement Award from Carnegie Mellon University. Gill currently serves on a task force on charter school issues for the Brookings Institution and was a member of the National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education at Brookings. Gill holds a Ph.D. in jurisprudence and social policy and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Steven Glazerman joined Mathematica as a researcher in 1998 after receiving a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Chicago. Based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, he is an expert on teacher performance and use of student achievement data to measure teacher, school, and program performance and is well-known for his contributions to evaluation methodology in education. He played a major role in Mathematica’s evaluation of Teach For America, as well as the firm’s studies of teacher induction and pay-for-performance initiatives. He recently served on a Brookings Institution task force to develop recommendations on federal policies to improve the quality of teachers, and he has advised the Gates Foundation on its work focused on teachers. Widely published, Glazerman is a frequent presenter and discussant at professional conferences, including those sponsored by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the American Educational Research Association, and the American Education Finance Association.
Christopher Trenholm joined Mathematica as a researcher in 1997 after receiving a Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina, and he currently serves as an associate director of health research. Trenholm, based in the firm’s Princeton, N.J. office, has a national reputation in teen parenthood/pregnancy prevention issues as well as children’s health. The national abstinence study he and his co-authors published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management was awarded the American Evaluation Association’s Outstanding Evaluation Award in 2009, which described it as “noted for its rigor, balance, and impact.” Trenholm’s national reputation in the area of children’s health includes pioneering methods for estimating and describing the effects of initiatives designed to boost enrollment in state insurance programs.
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 health care, early childhood, disability, education, employment, family support, international, and nutrition policies and programs.