Angeline Spain

Angeline Spain was a senior researcher at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, where she led initiatives focused on strengthening data capacity among afterschool providers and evaluating community-based approaches to mitigating adverse social determinants of health. She co-led a multi-year mixed-methods evaluation of 100% Community, a collective impact framework to transform social conditions across New Mexico counties. Her work also included studies on trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy as a prevention service for child welfare populations and ethnographic research on preventing youth homelessness. She previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Education and was a research associate at the American Institutes for Research. Spain is now an associate director at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, where she focuses on evidence-based strategies to address global development challenges. She earned a BA in political economics of industrial societies and a PhD in education from the University of California, Berkeley.

updated 2025