Hausler works in a technical and generalist capacity in MDRC’s Youth Development, Criminal Justice, and Employment policy area. Her current work includes data processing for the Families Forward Demonstration and the Procedural Justice-Informed Alternatives to Contempt demonstration. Hausler holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a second major in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At UNC, Hausler worked as a research assistant in the sociology department, and during her senior year, she wrote an honors thesis on the persistence of health care utilization behaviors from adolescence into young adulthood.