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James Dietz
James Dietz has worked at the National Science Foundation since 1989 and currently
is a Program Director for Research and Evaluation in the Directorate for Education
and Human Resources. He also has worked in research grants programs in organization
studies, human and social dynamics, historically black colleges and universities,
and the early career development. Dietz has experience working in both the executive
and legislative branches of the federal government and has served on numerous
interagency working groups. For the past two years he has represented the U.S.
on the Group of Eight Nations working group on the assessment of public investments
in science and technology research. His own research primarily is interested
in education and human resources policy, science and technology policy, organizational
studies, and policy and program evaluation. Current research involves advancing
methods of evaluation to keep pace with the growing complexity of today's social
programming.
Gerald Dillingham
Gerald Dillingham currently is Director of Civil Aviation Studies at the U.S. Government Accountability
Office. In that position, he is responsible for evaluation studies and program analyses across the spectrum
of civil aviation issues including safety, finance, environment, air traffic control,
airport development and international aviation issues. During his tenure at GAO since 1981, Dillingham has
led over 150 policy and evaluation studies and testified as an expert witness nearly 100 times
before various committees of the U.S. Congress. He also served as a team leader on the
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (The 9/11 Commission) -
Aviation and Transportation Security Team. He holds a Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
Chicago and a post-doctoral certificate from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Dillingham has served on the faculties of the University of Illinois-Champaign, UCLA, and George
Washington University in Washington D.C.
Marilyn Edelhoch
Edelhoch attended her first APPAM conference in 1998 to present results from
the South Carolina welfare leaver surveys. She found it a very exhilarating and
valuable opportunity, presented papers at the following four Fall Conferences,
and was invited to serve as a panel discussant at the next two. She hasworked
as director of research and evaluation at the South Carolina Department of Social
Services (SCDSS) since 1996. The significant grant funding the department received
throughout the welfare reform era allowed it to work closely with top researchers
across the country, many of whom attend APPAM conferences. As agency liaison
to university faculty and students, and to researchers around the country, Edelhoch
facilitate access to data and, at times, assists with research designs and grant
proposals. Her publications include articles in Social Policy Magazine, the APHSA
Journal Policy and Practice, The Research Forum of the National Center for Children
in Poverty and the Journal of Poverty. She is a Research Affiliate of the National
Poverty Center at the University of Michigan, and also serves as board secretary
for the National Association of Welfare Research and Statistics. Before SCDSS,
her career as an audit manager and assistant director with the state's legislative
oversight agency gave her considerable insight into
"what goes wrong in government" - and the complexities of program implementation.
Edelhoch particularly is interested in presenting research about programs with
a preventive focus in a convincing way to policy makers.
Angela Evans
Ms. Evans has had primary responsibility for all public policy research undertaken
by CRS. She established and directs the research framework within which all public
policy problems facing the Congress are assessed and analyses performed. During
the 108th Congress CRS supported over 180 active legislative issues, involving
the work of over 350 public policy analysts. Ms. Evans established and directs
research partnerships with selected graduate schools of public policy to enhance
the mid-to-long term analytic capacity of CRS. Currently 5 major universities
are undertaking cooperative research ventures in support of major policy problems
facing the U.S. Congress. She led the formal revision of all analyst positions,
including modifications to the core competencies required and performance standards
used for recruitment, retention and promotion. She also led the first federally-funded
workforce succession effort to cope with the potential loss of 50% of CRS’s
professional staff due to retirement. In the course of this effort CRS hired
the single largest cohort of analysts during a one-year period in the agency’s
history. Ms. Evans created the first integrated leadership and professional development
program for the Service’s analysts and research managers. She also secured
the largest private foundation grant ever received by CRS. Ms. Evans has performed
consulting services with public and private sector entities such as Motorola,
Procter and Gamble, the Conference Board, and the American Association of School
Administrators. She also was selected to represent CRS in a formal exchange program
between the United States Congress and the German Bundestag and has addressed
visiting dignitaries and officials from foreign parliaments and universities.
Ms. Evans, originally from Buffalo, New York, holds a BA from Canisius College
and an MA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. From 1994 to 1996, she
served as Acting Director for Congressional Relations at the Library of Congress.
For the seventeen years prior to that appointment, she held positions of increasing
responsibility within CRS as a social policy specialist and research leader in
domestic social policy, including serving as the head of the Service’s
Education Section.
Sheila Zedlewski
Sheila Zedlewski is the Director of the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute.
The center studies how government policies and individual behavior affect people’s economic well-being
throughout their lives, from balancing child-rearing with work to preparing for retirement. Her own
research has spanned issues across the life cycle with a particular focus on how government income security
and health programs affect low-income, vulnerable populations. Currently Zedlewski is studying participation
in work support programs, state welfare policies affecting hard-to-employ populations, and productive
engagement at older ages. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California-Berkeley.
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