Anna Marston

Anna Marston’s work focuses on providing research support and technical assistance to government agencies and their grantees, with an emphasis on family support, education, and more.

Using her background in psychology and public policy, she is passionate about understanding social justice initiatives and interventions to expand access to health care and human services. Since joining Mathematica, Marston has worked on qualitative and quantitative tasks related to education, nutrition, and family support, including teen pregnancy prevention, healthy relationships, child welfare, and home visiting. She has experience with systematic evidence reviews, impact evaluations, study recruitment and field data collection, and qualitative methods. She has managed the impact survey for the Youth At-Risk of Homelessness project, and has served as a review coordinator for the What Works Clearinghouse, a qualitative interviewer for the Fathers and Continuous Learning in Child Welfare project, and a writer of implementation profiles for the public-facing Teen Pregnancy Prevention Evidence Review website.

Marston holds a B.A. in leadership studies and psychology with a minor in women, gender, and sexuality studies from the University of Richmond. At Richmond, she conducted social psychology research focused on stigma and discrimination in the domains of mental illness, weight, and substance use. She has presented at conferences of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and published original research in peer-reviewed journals. Marston completed a senior honors thesis in psychology, "Demographic Disparities in College Students’ Psychological Adjustment During COVID-19," analyzing quantitative data on levels of student depression during COVID-19 and racial and gender disparities in access to mental health care. Marston served as a policy intern for the Council for Court Excellence, where she supported advancing criminal and juvenile justice policy in greater Washington, DC. Throughout college, she led a group of students who served as confidential advocates to students impacted by sexual and interpersonal violence.