Business Summit for Early Learning

Elaine Weiss
Program Manager, Research and Events
Partnership for America's Economic Success
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Elaine Weiss is the Project Manager for research the Partnership for America’s Economic Success, where she manages research for the project and helps to coordinate events and other outreach. In her first two years at the Pew Charitable Trusts, she has authored research briefs on a range of topics from health and housing to the impact of parenting education programs based on commissioned research, helped organize four major conferences and several state summits, and presented Partnership results at several smaller events.

She came to The Trusts from the George Washington School of Public Policy and Public Administration, where she is a doctoral candidate in urban policy. At the GW Institute for Public Policy, she helped staff several research projects, including a mixed-method analysis of the impact of state and city policy on city well-being, and an exploration of the impact of Open Sector-type reform on K-12 education. Prior to her policy work, Elaine was a staff attorney for the Alliance for Justice in Washington, DC, where she researched the backgrounds of nominees to the federal courts of appeal and worked with congressional staff on campaigns around key nominees. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1998 and worked as associate counsel at Steptoe & Johnson, LLP in Washington DC before joining the Alliance in 2000. She received her B.A. in Government and Politics and her B.S. in Biology from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1994.