Abby Alexanian brings to Root Cause more than a decade of experience as a practitioner, researcher, and consultant in the nonprofit and public sectors.

Abby’s work and expertise is focused on child- and youth-serving programs and systems, place-based initiatives, quality improvement for direct service providers, strategic planning, and program design and outcomes measurement. At Root Cause she provides coaching, capacity-building, facilitation, and implementation partnership and support to social service practitioners, backbone organizations, funders, and public agencies.

A community-based service provider at heart, Abby began her career as the children and youth advocate and case manager in a domestic violence shelter in Ann Arbor, MI, where she designed and implemented a new children’s program to build child and family resilience. She holds a Masters in Public Policy and an MBA in Nonprofit Management from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and a BA in International Studies from Vassar College.

Current and Past Projects: 

• Every Baby Guilford
• Customized Capacity Building and Technical Assistance for State Street Foundation Grantees
• Ready for School, Ready for Life and The Duke Endowment
• Tri-County Cradle to Career Collaborative
• Center for the Study of Social Policy
  Developmental Understanding and Legal Collaboration for Everyone (DULCE)

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