She is an Independent Scholar in Residence and President Emerita at MDRC, a nonprofit research organization that designs, manages, and studies projects to increase the self-sufficiency of economically disadvantaged groups.
[1] Until 1974, she was director of special projects and studies and a consultant for the New York City Human Resources Administration.
[8] In 2005, she received the first Richard E. Neustadt Award from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, "bestowed annually to an individual who has created powerful solutions to public problems, drawing on research and intellectual ideas as appropriate.
"[9] In 2008 she received the Peter H. Rossi Award from APPAM, which "[recognizes] important contributions to the theory or practice of program evaluation.
"[10] Gueron received her BA from Radcliffe College in 1963 (graduating summa cum laude) and her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1971.