Bridgette Lery is a senior fellow in the Family and Financial Well-Being Division at the Urban Institute. She has spent the past two decades working inside or on behalf of child welfare agencies to use their administrative data for better decisionmaking. She is an expert in using administrative data to plan, implement, and evaluate child welfare and other human service interventions using a continuous quality improvement approach. Some of Lery’s current and recent work includes evaluating California’s Guaranteed Income Pilot Program, San Francisco’s Family Resource Centers, Kentucky’s Hi-Fidelity Wraparound program, California’s Children’s Crisis Continuum Pilot Program, and Hello Baby, a child welfare prevention initiative in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Lery lives in San Francisco, where she previously worked in local government directing research and evaluation for the San Francisco Human Services Agency. She holds a BA in psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz; an MSW from Columbia University; and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare.