Barbara Gault, Ph.D., is the former Executive Vice President of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Her work covers a wide range of issues, including college access and affordability, job quality, paid leave, poverty, political engagement, and the need for better early care and education options for working parents. She founded and lead IWPRs Student Parent Success Initiative, and has authored dozens of reports and publications, including Improving Child Care Access to Promote Postsecondary Success Among Low-Income Parents, Resilient and Reaching for More: Challenges and Benefits of Higher Education for Welfare Participants and Their Children, " and Working First But Working Poor: The Need for Education and Training Following Welfare Reform. She has testified in Congress on low-income women’s educational access, has spoken and delivered keynote presentations in venues throughout the country, and appears in a range of print, radio and television media outlets. Prior to joining IWPR, Dr. Gault conducted research at the Office of Children’s Health Policy Research, and served as a staff and board member of organizations promoting human rights in Latin America. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from the University of Michigan. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Coalition on Human Needs, and is a Scholar in Residence at American University.

Elizabeth Noll, Ph.D., was a Senior Research Scientist at IWPR. Elizabeth worked primarily on IWPR’s Student Parent Success Initiative where she conducted policy research related to the needs and experiences of student parents with a focus on increasing postsecondary education access and persistence for low-income mothers. Projects included a national and state-level trend analysis of student parent college enrollment and the availability of on-campus child care, a regional profile of student parents, and a report outlining strategies for supporting student parents in community college.

Elizabeth has extensive experience in the management, linkage, and analysis of administrative data for use in public policy evaluation. Prior to joining IWPR, she worked as a data analyst at the University of Pennsylvania examining state and local public sector mental health services, and was the lead analyst in a NIMH-funded randomized intervention examining the impact of performance-based incentives on academic performance of low-income public school students. In addition to her work with secondary data, Elizabeth used qualitative methods to study the impact of privatization of public services on the economic opportunities of low-income women in college, the emergence of new administrative practices and data systems, and the political and social construction of evidence.

Elizabeth received both her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Sociology from Temple University and a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Pennsylvania.

Lindsey Reichlin is a Study Director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Lindsey manages IWPR’s grant-funded projects under the Student Parent Success Initiative (SPSI), which promotes access to and success in college for women who are parents of dependent children. She also contributes to IWPR’s research on global women’s issues, including conducting case studies for a study funded by the International Finance Corporation on private sector provision of child care supports.

Lindsey has presented IWPR research at numerous events and conferences, including serving as a panelist on private sector strategies to promote work-family balance at UNDP’s Third Global Forum on Business for Gender Equality in Panama City. An expert on access to postsecondary education, Lindsey has been quoted in several outlets including The Washington Post, the National Journal, and Market Watch.

Prior to joining IWPR, Lindsey held positions at the Aspen Institute’s Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health and at Global Policy Solutions in Washington, D.C. Lindsey has a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she studied human rights, and a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.