biography

Claire is a public policy researcher and Project Manager for Third Settlements. She has expertise in social, organizational, and political theory, issues of job quality, interview, and survey research. She is a Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she contributes to survey and interview research on advocacy and the public policy process. Claire also works with the Center for Social Policy at UMass Boston, on pilot research on public benefits cliffs, and led a project examining the use of best practices for promoting equitable access to job training in the emerging offshore wind industry.

Claire’s research focuses on job quality, labor policy, the process of policy formation and the role of union advocacy in U.S. politics. She has published with the Center for American Progress. Prior to her work at UMass Boston, Claire did graduate work at Brandeis University, where she contributed to research on federal workforce development programs targeting low wage healthcare workers. She has prior administrative experience, including work at the Posse Foundation, and with the Division of Student Life at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Claire earned her Master’s of Public Policy from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and her B.A. in Political Science and History from Fordham University.