Carly Morrison is a Senior Research Associate in MEF Associates’ Alexandria office. Carly is involved in many phases of the research process, including intervention design, random assignment evaluation design and implementation, site operations and technical assistance, and qualitative fieldwork.
Carly currently focuses on early childhood education and TANF, but she has previously worked on projects in an array of policy areas, including responsible fatherhood, employment and training, food insecurity, and child support. These projects include several multi-site random assignment evaluations, such as the Evaluation of Tennessee’s TANF Opportunity Act and Variations in Implementation of Quality Interventions, and descriptive studies, such as the Conversion of Enrollment Slots from Head Start to Early Head Start.
Prior to MEF, Carly worked on a range of policy areas including disability education, children’s health, and energy/environmental issues. During graduate school, Carly completed a client-based capstone project for the U.S. Government Accountability Office examining the differences in disability education implementation across states under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Carly holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Georgetown University’s McCourt School and a B.A. in Political Science from Providence College.