Grace Atukpawu-Tipton, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Senior Research Associate
Grace Atukpawu-Tipton has more than 20 years of experience in program evaluation, evaluation technical assistance, and applied social science research in the fields of child welfare, child and family development, education, and psychology.
Atukpawu-Tipton currently leads the development of issue briefs, videos, and blog posts for the National Home Visiting Resource Center. She led a community and family engagement project to support Room to Grow in developing a program theory of change model. She also directed a Parents as Teachers study to understand how interventions within the home visiting model help families overcome barriers to achieving education and employment goals. She led the program consultation component of a study on Supporting Family Economic Well-Being Through Home Visiting. She provided evaluation technical assistance to home visiting grantees through the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Technical Assistance Resource Center and served as a member of the Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative. Previously, Atukpawu-Tipton led the fidelity assessment and process evaluation for the HealthySteps Outcome Pilot Project. She was the project director for the Implementation and Cost Evaluation of a Two-Generation Strategy project and part of the research team for the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation-Strong Start project.
Prior to joining JBA, Atukpawu-Tipton conducted research on the psychosocial development of youth in foster care as they transitioned to independent living. She was also a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for children in the child welfare system and worked with children in foster care and group homes as a social worker for the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.
Atukpawu-Tipton received a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University and an M.S.W. from the University of California, Los Angeles.