Dorothy Hiersteiner

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Co-director - National Core Indicators

Dorothy co-directs National Core Indicators. Her work is driven by a passion for social justice and evidence-based policymaking. She is particularly skilled at building the capacity of public agencies to participate in data collection and outcome measurement initiatives like the National Core Indicators and NCI State of the Workforce Survey, and she helps ensure the consistency of these activities across states.

With a knowledge of data collection methods and protocols, Dorothy has contributed to, developed, and directed these national-scale data collection efforts, which states consider essential to their service delivery improvement efforts. Dorothy also contributes to data briefs, presentations, technical reports, and journal articles.

Education

  • Master of Public Policy from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University