Abby Eskenazi, M.P.P.

Abby Eskenazi has more than 10 years of experience in evaluation, technical assistance, and continuous quality improvement (CQI). She is trained as an improvement advisor through the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Breakthrough Series College. She has experience implementing home visiting CQI projects and collaborating with state and local partners to center equity in CQI projects, evaluation plans, and needs assessments.

At JBA, Eskenazi provides research and CQI support across practice areas. As part of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Technical Assistance Resource Center, she guides awardees in building their capacity in performance measurement and CQI.  She analyzes data and helps develop products for the Cross-Center Evaluation of the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative.

Prior to joining JBA, Eskenazi worked as the CQI lead and evaluation coordinator for the Family Foundations Home Visiting program at the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families. She received an M.P.P with a focus on child and family policy from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

My family’s maternal and child health challenges and my professional experience partnering with low-income parents raising young children fuel my commitment to improve child and family development outcomes. Continuous quality improvement, technical assistance, and program evaluation are impactful tools that can positively affect family-serving organizations. Centering root cause analysis, data disaggregation, and parent leadership in these approaches is essential to generating meaningful findings and advancing equity for families with young children.