| About Rebecca: |
Rebecca Solow is interested in helping
social entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial
organizations to maximize their ability for
sustainable and scalable success through the
development and improvement of operation
and evaluation systems.
After a high school career spent working on various political
campaigns, Rebecca graduated from Wesleyan University in 2004
with a BA in Economics and Government. At Wesleyan, Rebecca
was a leader in student government, chairing the Student Affairs
Committee, serving as a student representative to the Board of
Trustees, and contributing to the university’s strategic planning
process. She also worked as a research assistant in the Economics
Department studying the unintended effects of welfare reform on
low-wage workers, sparking her interest in policy and program
evaluation.
As an undergraduate Rebecca conducted research on global poverty
and corporate social responsibility for the Committee for Economic
Development in Washington, D.C.. Her research culminated in
the publication “Reducing Global Poverty: Engaging the Global
Enterprise.”
Rebecca has spent the last three years at MDRC, a non-profit social
policy research firm dedicated to researching and improving the lives
of low-income families. While at MDRC, she helped launch a national
demonstration project to study the effects of marriage education
programs for disadvantaged married couples and their children.
Rebecca provided technical assistance to demonstration sites around
the country, helping them plan and implement marriage education
programs, identifying best practices, and analyzing how programs
unfold in different organizational contexts.
In 2006, Rebecca co-authored a working paper on welfare entitled
“Does Welfare Reform Affect Wages for Low-Skill Workers?” and
presented the work at the annual conference of the Association for
Public Policy and Management. Later that year Rebecca served as a
consultant to the Local Initiative Support Corporation in New York
where she researched and evaluated a program that provided capacity
assessments and funding to support technology infrastructure at
community development corporations. She also volunteers at Beth
Israel Hospital as an emergency room advocate for survivors of
domestic violence and sexual assault. |
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