Jeanne Bellotti

Jeanne Bellotti has extensive expertise in designing and conducting evaluations of programs to help disadvantaged populations prepare for, find, and retain employment. Her work includes leadership roles on large-scale implementation, outcomes, cost, and net-impact studies of employment and training programs for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).

Bellotti currently directs two projects for DOL. She's leading a large-scale impact feasibility, impact, benefit-cost, and implementation study of the Strengthening Community Colleges Round 4 Grants. She is also directing an evaluation of Partnerships for Reentry Opportunities in Workforce Development, which is a collaboration between DOL and the Bureau of Prisons and funded under the First Step Act. She also recently directed evaluations of America's Promise Job Driven Training Grants, the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs Compliance Officer Training Evaluation, Reentry Projects Grants, Youth CareerConnect, Linking to Employment Activities Pre-Release, and Jobs Innovation and Accelerator Challenge Grants.

In addition to her own research, Bellotti is the senior director of Mathematica’s work related to labor and employment, a role in which she provides oversight and support to the large number of projects and proposals that Mathematica carries out for the U.S. Department of Labor, state workforce agencies, and local workforce boards and service providers. Bellotti routinely presents findings from her studies at DOL and other venues, including the annual research conference for the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. In 2010, she briefed staff of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on findings from the Summer Youth Employment Program. She holds an M.S. in public policy from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.