Marykate Zukiewicz

Marykate Zukiewicz has more than a decade of experience leading and supporting research evaluations, collaborative partnerships to support learning and strategy, and systematic evidence reviews. Her cross-disciplinary work has spanned the areas of workforce development, K–12 education, justice, and family support. Her expertise includes designing, conducting, and synthesizing evaluations and providing technical assistance.

Committed to translating evidence into practice, Zukiewicz has worked with foundations and agencies to apply analytic methods that support strategic planning and evaluation efforts across multiple investment areas. In the area of labor and workforce development, she recently directed an evaluation of the Great Jobs Kansas City program for the Kauffman Foundation, where she led a team analyzing the employment and apprenticeship outcomes of program participants. In the health area, she currently serves as principal investigator for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Policy Department Indicators of Progress Project to track and support progress on foundation initiatives.  In education, she directed Gates Foundation’s Secondary Writing project, providing measurement and evaluation technical assistance to grantees and foundation staff to generate evidence on solutions designed to improve student writing.

Zukiewicz also brings to her work years of experience conducting rigorous, mixed methods research evaluations. In the area of K-12 education, she led the U.S. Department of Education’s Education and Innovation Research evaluation of TNTP’s Turnaround Leadership Teams Strategy, an implementation and impact evaluation that utilized a randomized controlled trial design. In the areas of labor and workforce development, she has directed studies evaluating disability workforce programs, apprentice and training programs and the human services workforce.

Before joining Mathematica, Zukiewicz served as a corps member in Teach For America’s New York City program and worked as a legislative director on the New York City Council. She holds an M.P.A. from New York University and an M.Ed. in bilingual education from City University of New York.