Julia Isaacs

Julia Isaacs is the Child and Family Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where she works in the Center for Children and Families. As a First Focus Fellow, she will examine public investments in children and the implications for children of national budgetary and fiscal policies. The Brookings’ Center on Children and Families focuses on the well-being of America's children and their parents, especially those in less advantaged families.

Before joining the Brookings Institution, Julia served as Director of the Data and Technical Analysis Division in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She directed research and policy analysis on human services policies, including welfare reform, child care and child welfare. Prior to joining ASPE in 1998, she spent three years doing research on childhood development and school finance at the American Institutes for Research and ten years providing nonpartisan policy analysis to the U.S.Congress through the Congressional Budget Office.

Ms. Isaacs earned her Masters in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley and her B.A.in Political Science from Williams College. She was a licensed foster parent from 1992-1998.