SRCD Policy Fellowship Panel

Session Type: Conversation Roundtable

Abstract

This session will include both a panel presentation and a Q & A session. The panel will include an overview of the SRCD Policy Fellowship Program and presentations by current SRCD Policy Fellows working at both the federal and state level. The fellows will discuss the work they are focusing on at their placements and their experiences as fellows. The SRCD Policy Fellowship Program offers immersive opportunities for researchers to learn about policy development, implementation, and evaluation, and how to use developmental science to inform public policy at either the federal or state level in the United States. Federal fellows are placed in either U.S. congressional offices or federal executive branch agencies, while state fellows are placed in state executive branch agencies. The federal fellowship is for post-doctoral fellows, whereas the state fellowship includes both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows. The goals of the fellowship are (1) to provide fellows with firsthand experience in policymaking, program implementation, and evaluation, (2) to provide federal and state executive branch agencies and Congress greater access to research expertise on a diverse range of child development topics to enhance evidence-based policy development, implementation, and evaluation, and (3) to build a network of experts that bridge developmental science, federal and state policymaking, and practice.

Sub Unit

• Special Events

Moderator

• Kelly Fisher, Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)

• Rose Ippolito, Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)

Panelists

• Lorena Aceves, Child Trends -Maryland

• Krystal Bichay-Awadalla, SRCD Executive Branch Fellow, OPRE, ACF, HHS

• Jackie Gross, SRCD Executive Branch Fellow, OPRE, ACF, HHS

• Ellen Litkowski, SRCD Executive Branch Fellow, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS))

• Parisa Parsafar, SRCD Executive Branch Fellow, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Frances Martinez Pedraza, SRCD Executive Branch Fellow, Office of Child Care (OCC), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Florida International University

• Alayna Schreier, SRCD Executive Branch Fellow, ASPE, HHS

• Dianna Tran, VPD Government Solutions- Contracting for Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation

• Christian Clesi, SRCD Congressional Fellow, Office of Senator Bob Casey, Disability Policy, Special Committee on Aging, University of Alabama at Birmingham

• Andrew (Drew) B. McGee, University of Denver

• Wendy Wei, SRCD Pre-doctoral State Policy Fellow, Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC), Harvard University

• Jennifer Kristine Finders, Purdue University, West Lafayette