With 25 years of experience with the public workforce system, Collins’ expertise lies in the facilitation of strategies ranging from big ideas to operational practice. Prior to joining AIR, Collins’ experience included various facets of workforce development including at a local and state level and in the non-profit sector. Her ...
Joe Quick has nearly 20 years of experience in public and non-profit workforce, economic development, and education leadership, policy, and strategy, spanning federal, state, and regional and local levels. At AIR, Quick serves in key thought leadership and strategy roles to advance AIR’s efforts to support the nation through industry-driven ...
Christy Montgomery is a passionate innovation catalyst with over 15 years of experience in workforce development and government administration. She brings a breadth of knowledge engaging partners in strategic planning to achieve program and system alignment goals.Montgomery's responsibilities include leading project and tasks management of mid-large size contracts. She is ...
Clea Vannet is a senior researcher in the Health division at AIR, specializing in qualitative research and evaluation to advance health equity and improve care systems. With over nine years of experience, Clea brings expertise in qualitative methods, program evaluation, and project management. She has led numerous initiatives addressing behavioral ...
Jessica Heppen joined AIR in 2004 as a social scientist and program evaluator and is a nationally recognized expert in education research, policy, and practice. This month, she became AIR’s seventh president. In early 2024, she will become AIR president and CEO—the first woman to lead AIR in its 76-year ...
Jessica Mason is a senior researcher at AIR with a focus on postsecondary education. Her areas of expertise include college and career readiness, postsecondary student success initiatives, postsecondary models of competency-based education, and alternative forms of student financial aid. In addition to higher education content expertise, she has expertise in ...
AIR has been awarded a five-year, federal contract, consisting of a base year and four option years, to provide continued support for the evaluation, review, and maintenance of qualified health plans (QHP) offered on the Marketplace exchange through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
On February 23, 2023 AIR held a webinar to discuss what readiness is and why it matters, and to hear from OST leaders who are integrating readiness thinking and tools into their work. Participants had the opportunity to hear from researchers at AIR about AIR’s new, free resource, the Ready ...
Since 1989, the Government of Côte d’Ivoire has been implementing a school feeding program in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to improve food security and access to quality education. To continue supporting the school feeding program in seven priority regions, WFP mobilized McGovern-Dole funds from the ...
The purpose of this journal article was to examine the effect of the largest state Medicaid expansions in the 1990s and 2000s on all-cause, health-care-amenable, non-health-care-amenable, and HIV-related adult mortality using state level mortality data. The authors found no evidence that Medicaid expansions affect any of the outcomes in any ...
