Jennifer Thompson

Senior Director

Jennifer brings to Equal Measure over 20 years of experience leading and implementing program, initiative, and systems evaluations, using mixed-methods data collection and analyses. Her evaluation work has focused on economic mobility, youth development, education, and workforce development, working with foundations, community-based organizations, and government entities.

At Equal Measure, Jennifer plays lead roles on several national and regional evaluations, including with the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions’ Opportunity Youth Forum, a national network to change systems to better serve opportunity youth, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s LEAP (Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential) initiative, which seeks to improve outcomes for young people who have been involved in public systems or experienced homelessness. Jennifer also leads Equal Measure’s learning and evaluation efforts for Robin Hood’s Mobility LABs, an initiative aimed at increasing economic mobility through community-centered and data-driven pilots, and for the Peter Alfond Prevention and Healthy Living Center at MaineGeneral.

Before joining Equal Measure, Jennifer was Vice President and Senior Research Associate at Branch Associates, Inc., where she led a variety of program evaluations locally and nationally. Jennifer led a study of nonprofits in Philadelphia examining differences between white-led and African American-led organizations. She was also part of the evaluation team of the pre-K expansion in New York City. Earlier in her career, Jennifer was a research analyst at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, D.C., where she analyzed large national data sets of American students to explore educational outcomes.

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