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Jessica Goldberg
Project Director

Jessica Goldberg, Ph.D., is the Project Manager of the Massachusetts Healthy Families Evaluation (MHFE). She graduated with a BA in English from Oberlin College, and then received her Master's in early childhood teaching from the Department of Child Development at Tufts University. She later received her doctorate in Child Development from Tufts, with a concentration in child and family policy. Prior to joining the MHFE team as Project Manager, Dr. Goldberg spent eight years working as a research analyst on the evaluation. She also served as the director of an evaluation of the Touchpoints Early Care and Education Initiative, and an evaluation of a staff-development equity initiative for teachers. Dr. Goldberg is interested in the processes by which policy priorities and stated program objectives are realized, challenged, and re-shaped by the day-to-day interactions of frontline program staff and the clients they serve.

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