Project Manager, SRI Education
Mallory Rousseau, MA, is a project manager with more than 10 years of experience working to improve the lives of children and families. Her areas of content expertise include early childhood systems-building, gender-based violence primary prevention, and community-based child abuse and neglect prevention. Currently, Rousseau manages multiple concurrent projects at SRI, where she monitors adherence to timelines and budgets across different contract types and budgets of varying size and complexity ($400,000–$9,000,000); develops and implements work and communication plans; and oversees QA processes to ensure the timely development of high-quality products.
Most recently, Rousseau is the project and communications manager for the Data Governance Consulting and Support project with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF). Previously, she served as project manager for an HHS-funded Child Care Policy Research Partnership with the State of Arkansas to support the state’s efforts to improve participation of children in foster care in stable, high quality early care and education. Through her role with the Center for IDEA Early Childhood Data Systems (DaSy), she coordinated technical assistance activities to support states in developing data systems for early intervention and early childhood special education programs.
Before joining SRI, Rousseau was a research project coordinator at the University of Kansas Center for Public Partnerships and Research where she co-developed the Protective Factors Survey, 2nd Edition (PFS-2) and oversaw data collection for the national field test. There, she also provided training and technical assistance to child abuse prevention programs. Rousseau also previously coordinated a statewide intimate partner violence primary prevention initiative and provided direct service advocacy to survivors of gender-based violence. Rousseau earned her MA in sociology from Wichita State University. She also holds a BGS in sociology and women, gender, and sexuality studies from the University of Kansas.
