Jessica Goldberg is a Research Associate Professor at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University, the co-director of Tufts Interdisciplinary Evaluation Research (TIER), and a Distinguished Fellow in the Early Childhood research area at Child Trends. Jess’s background is in child and family policy analysis, applied child development, and program evaluation, with a focus on home visiting and other family support programs, place-based initiatives, and systems-building projects. Jess is particularly interested in mixed methods research that generates a deeper understanding of the community and policy contexts in which programs operate, and the processes by which policy priorities and program objectives are realized, challenged, and subverted during the day-to-day interactions between frontline program staff and families. Jess has more than 20 years of experience conducting evaluations of public health and family support programs, and is a co-founder of TIER’s Community Evaluator Model, a community-based participatory research approach TIER uses to ensure that those who are most directly impacted by public health programs and policies play an active role in shaping both the evaluation process and the public health responses.