Hilary Shager – “Reducing Poverty via Researcher, Practitioner, and Community Partnerships”
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Hilary Shager, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
HILARY SHAGER is the Associate Director for Programs and Management at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty. From March 2014 to March 2018, she served as the Associate Director of the La Follette School, responsible for administrative oversight of the school’s activities; educational programming; and teaching professional development, evidence-based policymaking, and program evaluation. While at La Follette, she also directed the Wisconsin Family Impact Seminars and Committee Connect, outreach programs with the Wisconsin State Legislature. Previously, she worked as a research analyst at the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, where she designed and conducted evaluations of the state’s early care and education, child welfare, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and child support programs. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received her Ph.D. in public policy with a minor in education sciences in 2012, and is also a proud La Follette School alumna who received her Master of Public Affairs in 2005. Prior to her graduate studies, she taught high school and middle school language arts and social studies in Fort Atkinson and Madison, Wisconsin.
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