Kristen Brunner Hislop is a Senior Researcher at Chapin Hall, where she serves as Project Director for Chapin Hall’s Multistate Foster Care Data Archive, a longitudinal file that forms the core of the Center for State Foster Care and Adoption Data, a collaboration of Chapin Hall and the American Public Human Services Association. Ms. Hislop has broad experience with data analysis, policy analysis, data management, program evaluation, and social service financing.

As Project Director of the Multistate Foster Care Data Archive, Ms. Hislop coordinates the acquisition and maintenance of Archive data. She manages the development and processing of the state data as well as the maintenance and ongoing development of the Archive database.

Ms. Hislop has also had primary analytic responsibility for a utilization review performed for a consortium of children’s behavioral health agencies and for the coordination of data acquisition, development and analysis for the New Jersey Core Child Welfare Database project. Before coming to Chapin Hall, Ms. Hislop worked for the New York State Division of Budget, where she had responsibility for programs in both the Mental Health and Substance Abuse unit and the Child Welfare unit. Ms. Hislop holds an M.A. in Public Affairs, with concentrations in policy analysis and management of public and nonprofit organizations, from the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.