Vanessa Quince

Vanessa Quince is a researcher with expertise in leading participatory evaluations, facilitating partner engagement, and translating research to nontechnical audiences. Her work spans public health, labor, criminal justice, and education and explores the structural barriers experienced by affected communities. She supports internal efforts to increase Mathematica’s capacity in equity and equitable practices, including project delivery and proposal writing, and works closely with diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts.

Quince is community engagement task lead for the evaluation of the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service’s programs and services, supporting the development and implementation of a robust, culturally responsive, and community-engaged evaluation strategy. As partner engagement lead for the Evaluation of the Pathway Home Grant Program, she leads engagement across affected communities, grantee organizations, practitioners, and researchers to gather their perspectives on evaluation design and site lead across two sites.

Before joining Mathematica, Quince was a social research scientist at Public Health Seattle and King County. In that role, she was the lead for King County’s Youth and Young Adult Gun Violence report designed to understand how to implement community-based solutions to address gun violence. Quince played a critical role in the department’s efforts to increase COVID-19 testing among vulnerable populations and communicated those data to community partners. Quince holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington.