Rebekah Selekman is a Senior Research Associate at MEF. She is a qualitative researcher with over 11 years of experience leading implementation studies for federal and state agencies, delivering technical assistance to improve delivery of family and income support programs, and disseminating research findings to diverse audiences. At MEF, she is part of the Next Generation of Child Support Employment Demonstration study, where she leads the provision of technical assistance to child support program grantees receiving federal funding to implement employment programs to unemployed or underemployed noncustodial parents.
Prior to joining MEF, she was a Senior Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, where she most recently led the implementation study of the congressionally mandated evaluation of child support cooperation requirements in SNAP. She also led to efforts to build a child support research agenda for the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation; the Office of Child Support Services; and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
Rebekah holds a PhD in Social Welfare from The University of Wisconsin-Madison.