HEATH J. PRINCE 7609 SHADOWRIDGE RUN, AUSTIN, TX 78749

CELL: 978.884.0763; EMAIL: HEATH.PRINCE@RAYMARSHALLCENTER.ORG

EDUCATION

PhD Social Policy, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, 2012 MA Social Policy, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, 2009 MPA Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, 1998 BA International Affairs, University of CO, Boulder, 1991

EXPERTISE

Quantitative and qualitative public policy analyst, evaluator and researcher in economic development and human development fields with over 15 years of pro-poor policy, evaluation and research experience. Adjunct lecturer and Teaching Assistant (2009-2011) in sustainable international development and poverty measurement. Collaborating researcher for United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Non-resident adviser on monitoring and evaluation Center for Global Development and Sustainability, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Developer of financial resources through donor research, grant proposal writing, and direct requests to foundations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

8/2015-present United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Principal Investigator, Middle East and North Africa research team, examining post-Arab Spring social policy development related to youth unemployment.

2014-present Nuru International. Provide strategic consulting regarding use of multidimensional poverty

metrics to evaluate impact of interventions in agriculture, asset development, and health education in Sub-Saharan Africa.

9/2014-present Director, Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, Lyndon B. Johnson School

of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. Primary responsibility for raising research funds, serving as public representative of the RMC, and ensuring quality of Center deliverables. Serve as principal investigator and team leader on research projects involving statistical analyses of confidential administrative records data on education, workforce and public benefits programs. Responsible for recruiting, developing and supervising Center staff, particularly those responsible for acquiring, creating and maintaining research datasets

9/2015-present Lecturer, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. Co-instructor for year-long Master’s-level Policy Research Project, examining the working conditions in the construction industry in Southern states. This course instructs students across a number of research activities, including primary data collection methods, data analysis, writing for publication, presentation, and policy advocacy related to, primarily, migrant and minority workers in the construction industry. Topics addressed in the course range from workers’ rights, to GIS mapping, to mapping industry influence on the political process.

3/2012-8/2014 Associate Director, Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. Assist director in leading, managing and raising research funds for the Ray Marshall Center. Serve as principal investigator and team leader on research projects involving statistical analyses of confidential administrative records data on education, workforce and related areas. Responsible for operations, including finances, budget, administration, human resources, monitoring and reporting. Responsible for recruiting, developing and supervising Ray

Marshall Center staff, particularly those responsible for acquiring, creating and maintaining research datasets

10/2010-3/2012 Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Law and Social Policy. Senior Policy Analyst for Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success. Led data analysis for Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Member of the Gates Foundation-supported Data Quality Campaign’s Workforce Advisory Committee. Provided policy analysis and technical assistance for the Joyce Foundation’s Shifting Gears initiative. Researched national workforce development and postsecondary education policy and practice.

1/2010-5/2011 Adjunct Lecturer, Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Sustainable International Development Program, Brandeis University. Taught theoretical and practical course on multidimensional poverty measurement to Master’s level students. The course included sections on the theoretical underpinnings of poverty measurement, methodological issues in measuring poverty in developing world contexts, and the construction of multidimensional poverty indices.

4/1999-10/2010 Senior Project Manager/Senior Researcher, Jobs for the Future. Senior Researcher for Building Economic Opportunity Group. Managed the production of the Baseline and Second Year Evaluation reports for the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, a multi-site, multi-funder sector-based workforce development initiative. Led research on multiple workforce development projects funded by The Ford Foundation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Open Society Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation, and several public agencies. Conducted research on best practices and institutional, local, state and federal policies regarding job-retention and career advancement for low-skilled and low-wage adult and youth workers. Managed the production of a series of issue briefs on subjects related to the advancement of low-skill workers. Produced reports and presentations for multiple clients on public policy regarding adult workforce development efforts. Developed concept papers and contract proposals for funders. Held supervisory responsibilities for staff

6/1998-4/1999 Planner, Texas Workforce Commission, Austin. Planned and designed employment programs, initiatives and projects, including working with state, local and federal agencies and organizations. Developed plans, policies, procedures and standards for welfare, youth and food stamp employment and training programs. Planned conferences and work groups on related topics. Conducted every aspect of contract development, requests for application and proposals, grant selection, and contract negotiations. Conducted ongoing monitoring of thirty-three Temporary Assistance for Needy Families-funded job-retention, re-employment and local innovation programs across the state of Texas. Developed working knowledge of TANF, Food Stamp and Workforce Investment Act rules and regulations. Designed and led implementation and oversight of a Microenterprise Loan Pilot Project and a “Wheels-to-Work” program for TANF recipients in several Texas cities.

6/1997-12/1997 Research Assistant, Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. Conducted research on a US Department of Education funded study, under the direction of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. Evaluated efforts by the States of Wisconsin and Texas to develop workforce development systems from their disparate job-training programs. Conducted interviews, compiled data and provided analysis of state efforts to reform publicly-funded job training systems. Research required complete familiarity with federal and state-funded job-training programs, as well as full appreciation of recent federal and state welfare reform. Study results published in monograph from National Center for Research in Vocational Education.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS and AWARDS Austin Community College/Austin Chamber of Commerce Strategic Planning Task Force member Travis County Workforce Development Community Master Plan Committee member Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management member American Evaluation Association member African Evaluation Association member Ann Ralen Brown endowed scholar, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University CONSULTANCIES and AFFILIATIONS 2016-present Community Health Champions. Member of Central Texas committee working to increase

access to healthcare for low-income residents. 2015-present Center for Global Development and Sustainability, Heller School for Social Policy and

Management, Brandeis University. Non-resident adviser on monitoring and evaluation. 2014 One Acre Fund. Provided strategic consulting, pro-bono, regarding impact evaluation

methods for fund projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2010-2012 Institute for Global Health and Development, Brandeis University. Affiliated Researcher. VOLUNTEER

2009- present Volunteer, Holy Family Parish Mission, Cevicos, Dominican Republic. Coordinate mission’s work on rural water project to create a water pipeline from nearby hillsides and into the city of Cevicos, to rehabilitate local water treatment plant, and to drill wells in areas not served by local utilities; oversaw a micro-lending program providing loans to over 20 small businesses in Cevicos; participated in monitoring progress of, and provision of scholarships to, 6 postsecondary students from Cevicos; and assisted with logistics in operations of, and service delivery for, the parish’s medical mission.

PUBLIC SERVICE

4/2006-4/2008 Board Member and Corporator, Friends of the Sawyer Free Library, Gloucester, MA.

2/2001-4/ 2002 Commissioner, Conservation Commission, City of Gloucester, MA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS

Cynthia Juniper and Heath Prince, Behavioral Economics and Workforce Development: A Review of the Literature from Labor Economics and the Broader Field, Journal for Workforce Education and Development, (forthcoming)

Heath Prince and Bethany Boggess, The Failed Promise of the Texas Miracle. Workers Defense Project, Austin, TX (February, 2016)

Heath Prince, The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, Neoliberalism, and Development Research; Kate Bayliss, Ben Fine, and Elisa Van Waerenberge, eds. London, Pluto Press, 2011. Book Review, Review of Radical Political Economics, Amherst, MA (January 11, 2016)

Heath Prince, Connecting Workers to Credentials: The Promise and Pitfalls of Awarding Academic Credit for Prior Learning. In “Transforming U.S. Workforce Development Policies for the 21

st Century,” Carl

Van Horn, Tammy Edwards and Todd Greene, eds., Upjohn Institute Press, Kalamazoo, MI (September, 2015)

Christopher King and Heath Prince, Moving Sectoral and Career Pathway Programs from Promise to Scale. In “Transforming U.S. Workforce Development Policies for the 21

st Century,” Carl Van Horn, Tammy

Edwards and Todd Greene, eds., Upjohn Institute Press, Kalamazoo, MI (September, 2015)

Heath Prince, Macro-level Drivers of Multidimensional Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Measuring Change in the Human Poverty Index. African Evaluation Journal, Vol.2, No.1 (2014)

Dan O’Shea and Heath Prince, Assessing the Resident Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency Program of the Housing Authority of the City of Austin, Year Three Process Analysis Report, City of Austin November 1, 2013

Cynthia Juniper, Daniel G. Schroeder, Anjali Gupta, Heath Prince, Monica Faulkner, and Laura Marra, Texas Early Childhood Care and Education Institutions of Higher Education: Capacity Survey Final Report. Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources and Child and Family Research Institute, University of Texas, Austin, October, 2013

Heath Prince, Macro-level Drivers of Multidimensional Poverty in Developing Countries: Measuring Change in the Human Poverty Index. Doctoral dissertation, PhD Social Policy, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.

Matt Crellin, Patrick Kelly, and Heath Prince Increasing College Attainment in the United States: Variations in Returns to States and their Residents, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 44:4, 35-41

Heath Prince and Vickie Choitz, The Credential Differential: The Public Return to Increasing Postsecondary Credential Attainment, Center for Law and Social Policy. Washington, D.C. 2012

Radha Roy Biswas and Heath Prince, Pushing the Envelope: State Policy Innovations in Financing Higher Education for Workers who Study, Jobs for the Future, with funding from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, June 2008.

Heath J. Prince, ed., Strategies for Financing Workforce Intermediaries: Working Papers, National Fund for Workforce Solutions, with funding from the Ford Foundation. July 2007.

Grubb, Badway, Bell, Chi, King, Herr, Prince, Kazis, Hicks and Taylor, Toward Order from Chaos: State Efforts to Reform Workforce Development "Systems"; ; National Center for Research in Vocational Education publication, Publication No. MDS-1249, January 1999

Heath J. Prince, Theoretical and Practical Problems with Privatizing Public Services, Master’s Thesis, University of Texas, Austin; May 1998

Christopher T. King and Robert E. McPherson, Eds., Building a Workforce Development System for Texas ... A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Reform, Austin: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, Policy Research Report Number 126, 1997

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Factors Contributing to Changes in the Human Poverty Index: a preliminary examination of the relationship between changes in the HPI and rights, assets, health, and inequality variables. Human Development and Capabilities Association, Annual Conference. Lima, Peru. September 12, 2009.

Factors Contributing to Changes in the Human Poverty Index: a preliminary examination of the relationship between changes in the HPI and rights, assets, health, and inequality variables. Heller School 50

th

Anniversary Gala, Brandeis University. October 14, 2009.

Innovative State Applications of Federal SNAP E&T Funding. Working Poor Families annual conference, Chicago, IL. June 28, 2010.

Understanding Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: It’s Potential Role in Shaping Development Policy.

Speech to 24 Hour Fast in Support of Famine Suffers in Horn of Africa, Brandeis University. October, 15, 2011.

Career Pathways Outcomes: A Preliminary Examination of the Evidence. Wisconsin Regional Industry Skills Education annual conference, Appleton, WI. October 21

st, 2011.

Spotlight on Support Services: Using Federal Resources to Fund Support Services for Career Pathways and Bridges. National Council for Workforce Education annual conference, St. Louis, MO. October 24, 2011.

Giving Credit Where Credit is Due: Creating a Competency-based Qualifications Framework for Postsecondary Education and Training. National Council for Workforce Education annual conference, St. Louis, MO. October 25, 2011.

Giving Credit Where Credit is Due: Creating a Competency-based Qualifications Framework for Postsecondary Education and Training: Presentation to Ohio Association for Adult and Continuing Education, Columbus, OH, April, 2012

Increasing College Attainment in the United States: Variations in Returns to States and Their Residents: Presentation to Austin Area Research Organization, September, 2012.

Overview of the Central Texas Student Futures Project: Presented to the Gwinnett Co. Chamber of Commerce,

Austin, TX, October, 2012 Overview of Publicly-Funded Workforce Development System in Texas: J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Conference,

February, 2013 Overview of the Central Texas Student Futures Project: Presented to the Data Quality Campaign, Washington,

D.C., June, 2013 Macro-level Drivers of Multidimensional Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Measuring Change in the Human

Poverty Index, 35th

Annual Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C. November 7

th, 2013

Macro-level Drivers of Multidimensional Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Measuring Change in the Human

Poverty Index, bi-annual conference of the African Evaluation Association, Yaounde, Cameroon March 6

th, 2014

Low-Skilled Workers and the Great Recession: Employment Experiences and Attempts at Workforce

Integration (discussant), Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management conference, Albuquerque, NM, November 6-8, 2014

Macro-level Drivers of Multidimensional Poverty in Latin American and Caribbean Countries: Measuring

Change in the Human Poverty Index, American Evaluation Conference, Chicago, November 13th, 2015

RELATED SKILLS

Academic Adviser, the University of Texas, Austin, CNS Honors Center, Polymathic Scholars

Academic Adviser, Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy’s Sustainable International Development program

Peer reviewer for African Evaluation Journal, Journal of Poverty, and World Development

Expertise in quantitative analysis tools (STATA) and methods

Competency in French

Principal Investigator

Account No. Project Sponsor Funding Period Amount

pending Mid-South Community College-led Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College Career Training (TAACCCT) Grant

Corporation for a Skilled Workforce

4/1/15-9/30/18 $242,519

26-7527-33xx Behavioral Economics and Workforce Development

Hitachi Foundation 1/26/15-12/14/15 $47,891

26-3508-01xx Summer Melt: Digital Messaging to Improve FAFSA Completion and Income Verification and Improve College Enrollment and Success

Harvard University 7/1/14-6/30/17 $78,848

26-3506-58xx Gulf Coast IT Pathways Consortium Evaluation

Aspen Institute 5/15/13-3/31/16 $322,500

26-3970-89xx Training for Regional Energy in North Dakota (TREND) Evaluation

Corporation for a Skilled Workforce

2/28/13-11/14/16 $449,684

26-8273-96xx Evaluation of the Adult Basic Education Innovation Grant

Austin Community College 2/1/13-8/31/13 $20,000

26-3211-54xx IHE Capacity Survey University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston

10/22/12-6/30/13 $81,165

26-6816-02xx Central Texas Student Futres Project

Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce-TG

9/1/12--8/31/13 $140,447

26-8273-82 Patterns of Local Program Services Participation, Outcomes and Impacts Evaluation

City of Austin 11/1/12-3/31/14 $50,590

26-3970-13xx Growing Regional Opportunities for the Workforce (GROW)

Jobs For The Future 9/1/12-10/31/16 $699,983

26-6815-72xx Staying Powers: Building College Persistence for our Most Challenged Students

E3 Alliance 10/15/11-1/31/13 $115,000

Total $2,248,627

Co-Principal Investigator

Account No. Project Sponsor Funding Period Amount

26-8273-92xx Resident Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency Evaluation

Housing Authority of the City of Austin

1/1/13-12/31/13 $15,000

Total $15,000