Demetra Nightingale

Demetra S. Nightingale is principal research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Policy Studies, where she teaches courses in social policy and in program evaluation. She is also an affiliate faculty of the Hopkins Population Center, senior research consultant at the Urban Institute, a senior affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan, and a senior research consultant with the World Bank, Social Protection Division. For 29 years before joining Johns Hopkins she was at the Urban Institute, most recently as a program director in the Labor and Social Policy Center. Her primary areas of research are workforce development, welfare, family services, youth development, and the labor market. She has authored or edited seven books, most recently Repairing the U.S. Social Safety Net with Martha Burt (2009).