She is a faculty affiliate of the University of Chicago Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty, and the University of Michigan National Poverty Center. She serves on the advisory committee of SSA’s Employment Instability, Family Well-being, and Social Policy Network and is a member of the steering committee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families' Child Care Policy Research Consortium.