Katie Gonzalez

Katie Gonzalez’s work focuses on early childhood programs and policies, including those intended to improve program quality, increase access particularly for young children from families with low-incomes, and support the early childhood workforce.

Since joining Mathematica in 2020, Gonzalez has worked on a range of projects in early childhood, education, and family support. On the American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey project, Gonzalez led quantitative analyses to examine the experiences of children and families in Region XI Head Start programs that are operated by federally recognized tribes. As a part of the Early Care and Education Leadership Study and the Assessing the Cost and Implementation of High Quality Early Care and Education project teams, she has led quantitative analyses to develop new measures of leadership and implementation of high quality services in early childhood programs and to test their psychometric properties.

Before joining Mathematica, Gonzalez was an Institute of Education Sciences Partnering in Education Research fellow at Harvard University and received a Dissertation Grant from the American Educational Research Association. Her work has been published in Child Development, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, The Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, and Family Relations. She holds a Ph.D. in education from Harvard University.