Cynthia Osborne | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Princeton University, Harvard Kennedy School, Claremont Graduate University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Social policy, demography, poverty, child policy, family policy, early childhood, inequality |
Institutions | The University of Texas at Austin, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs |
Website | https://lbj.utexas.edu/osborne-cynthia |
Cynthia Osborne is a family researcher who is associate dean for academic strategies at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. She is founder and director of its Child and Family Research Partnership and its Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at the LBJ School.
Prior to her career in academia, Osborne was an economic analyst with Analysis Group, Inc. from 1991 to 1994 and then a teacher and administrator at Foothill Middle School in Azusa, California from 1994 to 1997. [1]
Osborne joined the faculty of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs in 2005 and was appointed associate dean for academic strategies in 2018. [2] In 2011, she founded the Child and Family Research Partnership, [3] a nonpartisan research center on policy issues related to children and their parents. In 2019, she launched the 50-state focused Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center [4] and its annual Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap and Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Clearinghouse.
She was previously director of the Project on Education Effectiveness and Quality, [5] and the Chair of the Responsible Fatherhood working group for the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN) [6] of the federal Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
Her most cited publications are:
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