Julie is a research scientist at NORC, with a decade of experience evaluating programs and systems change initiatives in the areas of early care and education, child well-being, and safety and justice. She guides project work with her expertise in leading qualitative interviews and site visits, developing and conducting surveys, and directing qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

Julie has conducted research and evaluation work for federal offices, including the Office of Head Start, the Office of Childcare, the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. She has also co-led systems change evaluations for nonprofit organizations and major foundations, such as the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation.

Julie is currently managing and leading data collection and analysis for the evaluation of the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge, working to reduce jail overuse in 26 local justice systems across the country. She also manages A Data Modernization Framework for Federal Surveys project, where NORC and its partners explore innovative ways to integrate NCSES’s workforce surveys with alternative data sources to modernize data collection and improve the efficiency, accuracy, and relevance of federal surveys.

Julie has recent experience managing the development of an evaluation framework for the Palix Foundation’s Resilience Scale Framework to assess its impact on resiliency at a population level.

While working on her master’s degree, Julie was a research assistant at the Center for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) at the University of Pennsylvania. Before that, she taught high school geometry in Dallas, Texas.