Jeanne Bellotti

Jeanne Bellotti has extensive expertise in designing and conducting evaluations of programs to help Americans prepare for, find, and retain employment in high-skilled careers. Her work includes leadership roles on large-scale implementation, outcomes, cost, and net-impact studies of employment and training programs for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).

Bellotti currently leads a large-scale impact feasibility, impact, benefit-cost, and implementation study of the Strengthening Community Colleges Round 4 Grants and serves as a senior advisor on the Apprenticeship Data and Performance Technical Assistance Center. She also recently directed evaluations of Partnerships for Reentry Opportunities in Workforce Development, America's Promise Job Driven Training Grants, the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs Compliance Officer Training Evaluation, Reentry Projects Grants, Youth CareerConnect, Linking to Employment Activities Pre-Release, and Jobs Innovation and Accelerator Challenge Grants.

In addition to her own research, Bellotti is the senior director of Mathematica’s work related to labor and employment, a role in which she provides oversight and support to the large number of projects and proposals that Mathematica carries out for the U.S. Department of Labor, AmeriCorps, state workforce agencies, and local workforce boards and service providers. Bellotti routinely presents findings from her studies at DOL and other venues. In 2010, she briefed staff of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on findings from the Summer Youth Employment Program. She holds an M.S. in public policy from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.