With more than three decades of experience in workforce development and human services programs, Wavelet became MDRC's Director of State and Local Strategy in June 2025. She works with state and local government agencies to develop new projects that span MDRC’s policy areas.
Wavelet joined MDRC as a senior fellow in April 2019 after serving in executive roles in Colorado, Wisconsin, and New York City government agencies since 2005. Through the design and implementation of KidStat in Wisconsin and C-Stat in Colorado, she demonstrated how all types of data can be used to create and continuously improve practices, programs, and policies to better support families. She is currently the project director for the TANF Data Collaborative 2.0 and co-project director for the State IMPACT Collaborative. She served as the coordinator of the 30-month state agency pilot for the TANF Data Innovation Initiative and authored the TANF Data Collaborative Pilot Initiative Final Report and The Five Phases of Successful Data Analytics: TANF Data Collaborative Pilot Resources Toolkit.
Wavelet holds a B.A. in political science and Spanish from Marquette University and an MPP in public management from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University.
