Vanessa Quince

Vanessa Quince is a researcher with expertise in leading participatory evaluations, facilitating partner engagement, and translating research for nontechnical audiences. Her work spans public health, labor, criminal justice, and education.

Quince is engagement task lead for California’s Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI). In this role she oversees engagement activities for key groups across California’s Behavioral Health continuum including the CYBHI Evaluation Advisory Group (CEAG) which consists of youth, caregivers, frontline workers, local systems leaders, and researchers. She is also task lead of the community spotlight report, for which the evaluation team conducts listening sessions with youth, young adults and caregivers to understand the impacts of the intervention. 

As partner engagement lead for the Evaluation of the Pathway Home Grant Program, she leads engagement across communities, grantee organizations, practitioners, and researchers to gather their perspectives on evaluation design and site lead across two grantee sites.

Before joining Mathematica, Quince was a social research scientist at Public Health Seattle and King County, Washington. In that role, she was the lead for King County’s Youth and Young Adult Gun Violence report, which was designed to improve implementation of community-based solutions to gun violence. Quince also 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.