>> My name is Courtney, and I'm a program associate at Mathematica Policy Research,
and we're a nonpartisan social policy research firm, and we have five areas that we focus in.
it's data analytics, international health care, and human services, and survey,
and so what my job entails is I'm about half on the project side
and about half on the internal side.
And so, a typical day for me is really just coming in and working
on whatever project needs the most attention at that moment, and so, the projects that I focus
on currently are labor projects, but I've also worked on a good amount of health project,
as well as some education projects, and then about half
of my time is internal strategic work, and so that's a lot of business development,
capture planning, market research, looking at our competitors, as well as internal processes.
So a busy typical day for me, I come in.
I answer emails.
I go to meetings.
I could be on a site visit.
I just got back from going on site visits for one of my projects with foster care,
youth aging out of foster care at risk of homelessness, and so kind of the coordination
and logistics for planning that visit, as well as going on the visit, interviewing people
on site, and then, kind of, the back end of that, writing up the site visit reports and kind
of finalizing the report, but when I'm actually in the office,
a lot of what I'm doing is research, and so, research can take on a lot
of different shapes at Mathematica.
It can be a literature review.
It can be more quantitative.
I can be more qualitative, and it can also be researching potential opportunities
that are in our pipeline.