Edith Yang is a seasoned evaluation and data science researcher whose current work focuses on responses to homelessness, financial wellness, and economic mobility. Her expertise developed out of efforts to understand the disruption of destabilizing life events on workforce development, career advancement, and self-sufficiency. In her contributions to the Working Credit, Shared Housing, and HomePath studies, Yang has examined social determinants of health in order to address the nation’s growing homelessness and loneliness crises. She also leads the Grameen Financial Diaries study, which seeks to understand the financial lives and resilience of women who received microloans from Grameen America. Over the course of nearly two decades at MDRC, Yang has led and conducted workforce- and community-related studies on economic mobility — including the Google Career Certificates Fund Impact Study, the Chicago Community Networks Study, and Paycheck Plus — and provided data-focused capacity building to numerous workforce organizations to support them in tracking and measuring economic outcomes over time. Yang holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University.
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