Kathy Stack

Kathy Stack is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy and the CEO of KB Stack Consulting. Kathy is a nationally recognized leader in evidence-based policy who focuses on intergovernmental strategies to advance the use of data, evidence, and cross-program innovation in education, workforce, health, human services, and other social programs. Kathy currently coordinates several Tobin Center efforts that are building partnerships with federal, state, and local governments to strengthen their capacity to use integrated data to evaluate and improve programs and outcomes for vulnerable populations. Prior to joining the Tobin Center, Kathy spent nearly three decades in the federal government, including 27 years at the White House Office of Management and Budget that culminated in the development and oversight of OMB’s evidence-based policy agenda during the Obama administration. As OMB’s Deputy Associate Director for Education, Income Maintenance and Labor, Kathy oversaw budget, policy, legislation, regulations, and management issues for the Departments of Education and Labor and major human services programs. Kathy also launched and led OMB’s Evidence Team to strengthen federal agency capacity to use evidence, evaluation, data, and outcome-focused program designs to improve program effectiveness. After retiring from OMB, Kathy served for several years as Vice President at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation where she helped federal, state, and local governments build capacity to use data and evidence to improve decision-making.