Dr. Weissinger teaches at UC Berkeley’s Goldman Public Policy School and Mills College. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley’s school of social welfare. There, she helped create a qualitative database documenting the lives of children in foster care.
Dr. Weissinger received her PhD in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley in 2013. Her dissertation examines reasons for attrition among foster care adoption seekers. She formerly served as data and research manager at JBS International, where she oversaw data collection and analysis for the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSRs) conducted by the Children’s Bureau.
From 2000 to 2005, she worked for the District of Columbia’s Child and Family Services Agency as part of a team that helped the Agency emerge from court receivership.
She received her Masters in Policy Studies from Johns Hopkins University. She is the board treasurer for Waterside Workshops, a local non-profit that provides vocational education to young people emerging from foster care and the juvenile justice system.