Hill joined MDRC in 2014 from Georgetown University, where she was a tenured associate professor of public policy. She co-leads MDRC’s Implementation Research Incubator and Implementation Research Group, supporting innovative and rigorous implementation research methods. Hill’s research spans policy areas and program topics and includes early childhood home visiting, Head Start, prekindergarten, K-12 education, child support, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and poverty. She is coauthor of three books and a number of reports and journal articles that address implementation, public management, performance measurement, and program evaluation methods, including “Empirical Benchmarks for Interpreting Effect Sizes in Research” (Child Development Perspectives, 2008), Public Management: Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions (CQ Press, 2015), and Conducting Implementation Research in Impact Studies of Education Interventions: A Guide for Researchers (NCEE, 2023). Hill is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. She earned a B.A. in political science and Russian area studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia, an M.A. in public affairs from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Chicago.
