Nancy Pindus is an Urban Institute associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, where she is an experienced policy researcher and project manager, specializing in program evaluation, organizational behavior, cost analysis, and service delivery. Her research projects have taken Pindus to communities across the country, examining program implementation and operations through interviews, on-site observations, and focus groups. She has studied economic development, welfare reform, employment and training, food assistance, and public health programs. She has also examined coordination across agencies and systems as well as local capacity building in many studies.

Pindus has been with Urban for 25 years; from April 2009 through June 2010, she served as Metro’s acting center director. She also codirected a four-year evaluation of the New Markets Tax Credit Program, including administrative data analysis, surveys and in-depth telephone interviews. She currently directs a study of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian housing needs, as well as a study of the Food Distribution program on Indian reservations.

Pindus holds a BA in biology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She is also a certified public accountant licensed in Maryland.