NAWRS Board of Directors

NAWRS is governed by an all-volunteer, elected board. Board members make planning, administrative, and business decisions for the Organization. Members contribute to the planning and operation of each Annual Conference. They participate in planning the program, identifying workshops, and selecting speakers and presenters. To find out more about how to get involved, contact us at NAWRSWorkshop@gmail.com or visit the Get Involved section.

  • Director of Analytics and Research, Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, Division of Economic Security

    Areas of Interest: Child Support, TANF, Employment Services, Refugee Programs

    Term End Date: September 2027

  • Senior Research Manager, Economic Services Administration (ESA), Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), State of Washington

    Areas of Interest: TANF, SNAP, Employment Services, Performance Measurement, Advancing Equity

    Term End Date: September 2026

  • Child Support Enforcement Director, Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services

    Areas of Interest: Child Support Policy and Enforcement, Workforce Development, Data-Driven Decision Making, Social Service Program Innovation, Collaboration Across Agencies, Improving Outcomes for Families

    Term End Date: September 2027

  • Senior Social Science Research Analyst, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

    Areas of Interest: Employment & Training, TANF, Family Self-Sufficiency, Research and Evaluation

    Term End Date: September 2026

  • Director, Center Operations; University of Maryland, Baltimore – School of Social Work – Family Welfare Research and Training Groups

    Areas of Interest: Financial Support Programs (SNAP, TANF), Child Support, Administrative Data and Research, and Program Performance Improvement

    Term End Date: September 2027

  • Business Initiatives Manager, Wisconsin Department of Children and Families

    Areas of Interest: Child Welfare, Early Care and Education, Family and Economic Security, Justice Programs and Performance Management

    Term End Date: September 2027

  • Senior Researcher, American Institutes for Research

    Areas of Interest: TANF, Workforce Development, Child Welfare, Systems Integration, Human-Centered Design, Poverty Reduction, Research and Evaluation, Implementation Science, Research to Practice

    Term End Date: September 2026

  • Manager, Public Consulting Group (PCG)

    Areas of Interest: TANF, Workforce Development, SNAP E&T, Public Assistance and Employment Services

    Other Affiliations: American Pubic Human Services Association (APHSA), National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB), Human Services Finance Officers (HSFO)

    Term End Date: September 2027

  • Executive Research Director, New York Department of Social Services

    Areas of Interest: Poverty Reduction, Implementation Science, Behavioral Health, Organizational Culture, Human-Centered Design

    Other Affiliations: Fordham University; Society for Social Work and Research

    Term End Date: September 2026

  • Deputy Assistant Secretary – Workforce Division;
    Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services

    Areas of Interest: TANF, Workforce Development – SNAP E&T, CSE E&T, STEP, TANF, Disability Determinations

    Other Affiliations
    SPARK (Supporting Partnerships to Advance Research and Knowledge) Learning Community, Evidence Champion for Evidence Clearinghouse

    Term End Date
    September 2026

  • Monitoring and Evaluation Supervisor, Housing & Community Development Department, City of Oakland

    Areas of Interest: Employment and Workforce Development, Criminal Justice and Re-entry, Child Welfare, Implementation Science

    Other Affiliations: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, American Evaluation Association

    Term End Date: September 2026

  • Senior Fellow, MDRC

    Areas of Interest: TANF, SNAP, Employment and Workforce Development, Using data to improve program services and outcomes, Evaluation

    Term End Date: September 2026

  • Director of Public Sector Partnerships, SteadyIQ

    Areas of Interest: SNAP, Medicaid, TANF, Child Support, LIHEAP, Technology, Human-Centered Design, Program Integrity

    Term End Date: September 2026

  • Associate Director, Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Areas of Interest: Anti-Poverty, Early Childhood, and Child Support Policy; Use of Linked Administrative Data in Social Science Research; Supporting Evidence-Informed Policymaking

    Term End Date: September 2027

  • Senior Fellow, MEF Associates

    Areas of Interest: TANF, Two-Generation Programs, Economic Mobility, Technical Assistance

    Term End Date: September 2027

  • Director, ICF

    Areas of Interest: Human Services Interoperability, Policy and Program Implementation, Strategic Doing, Training and Technical Assistance, Grant Management, Trauma-Informed Care, Workforce Development, Research to Practice, Finance, Technology

    Term End Date: September 2028

  • Results Coordinator, Minnesota Management and Budget

    Areas of Interest: Public assistance, behavioral science, economic development, labor market, poverty reduction

    Term End Date: September 2028

  • Supervising Research Specialist, Riverside University Health System- Public Health

    Areas of Interest: Health Equity, Workforce Development, Early Care and Education, Trauma-Informed Approaches, Research and Evaluation

    Term End Date: September 2027

  • Research Associate Professor, Social Research Institute, College of Social Work, University of Utah

    Areas of Interest: Welfare Policy, Diverse Low-Income Poverty Issues; Trauma-Informed Approaches in Organizations

    Other Affiliations: Traumainformedutah.org

    Term End Date: September 2027

  • Deputy Director for Operations, Family Investment Administration, Maryland Department of Human Services

    Areas of Interest: SNAP, TANF, Medicaid, Technology, Employment and Training, Program Integrity, Data/Research, Continuous Quality Improvement, Change Management, Operations, Human Centered Design

    Term End Date: September 2027

  • Exploratory Analysis and Research Manager, California Department of Social Services, Research Automation and Data Division

    Areas of Interest: SNAP, TANF, Housing and Homelessness Programs, Causal Inference, Evidence Synthesis, Program Performance Improvement

    Term End Date: September 2027

  • Minnesota TANF Program Manager, Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, Family Well-Being Division

    Areas of Interest: Strategic Planning, Implementation of Strategies to Assist Families and Children Living in Poverty

    Term End Date: September 2027

  • Research & Evaluation Specialist, Colorado Department of Human Services

    Areas of Interest: TANF, SNAP, Participatory Action Research, Organizational Change, Adult Learning, Data Visualization, Implementation Science, and User Experience

    Term End Date: September 2028

  • Michael Bono joined the NAWRS Board of Directors in 2004 and served tirelessly as President in 2010 and again in 2014 and 2015. He continued to work on NAWRS behind the scenes until cancer took him from us in 2016. We are so grateful to have known this warm, selfless, charismatic dynamo with a boundless heart for the less fortunate.

    We hope you enjoy this heart-warming tribute to Michael. Friends and colleagues shared some of their favorite memories during an informal gathering to honor him at the NAWRS 2017 Workshop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.