Acosta is a research assistant in the Families and Children policy area, where she provides installation and operations support, technical assistance, and project management and coordination for the Variations in Implementation of Quality Interventions project and the Measures for Early Success Initiative. Before joining MDRC’s New York office in 2021, Acosta was a research assistant in a cognitive neuroscience lab at Vanderbilt University, an academic tutor for high schoolers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the president of Vanderbilt’s club volleyball team, and a mentor at middle schools in the Nashville metropolitan area. She graduated from Vanderbilt University in May 2021 with bachelor’s degrees in neuroscience and Latin American studies.
