Emily leads partnerships with cities, states, federal agencies, and researchers to build administrative data capacity. Her specializations include data management, research design, longitudinal analysis, documentation strategies, data quality assessment, and record linkage. 

Emily has worked on federally funded analysis and technical assistance projects on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), childcare, and workforce topics. She has helped build and develop multiple integrated data systems in early childhood, child welfare, and the human services. She has written extensively on public sector data use and record linkage methods, as well as publishing analyses of longitudinal linked data on the early childhood workforce and families involved with multiple service systems.

For nearly a decade, Emily managed Chapin Hall’s Integrated Database on Child and Family Programs in Illinois, linking administrative data on social service receipt, education, criminal and juvenile justice, employment, healthcare, and early childhood programs. She oversaw a modernization of the database’s technical infrastructure and led the design of new approaches to documentation, record linkage, and quality control.