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Sonia D. Worcel, M.A., M.P.P.

Vice President of Operations

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Sonia Worcel serves as Vice President of Operations at NPC Research. In this capacity, she oversees the day-to-day operations of the company. She also provides contract, budget, and staffing management and oversight, including creating all grant proposal and project budgets and facilitating the contracting process with clients. In addition, she oversees the grant proposal process and tracks all submissions.

Prior to her role as Vice President, Ms. Worcel served as a Research Associate at NPC. She has more than 15 years of experience in research and policy analysis in the areas of early childhood, child welfare, prevention and intervention programs for families and youth, juvenile and criminal justice, and substance abuse treatment and prevention. She has expertise in project management, budgeting, research design, database development and management, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis.

Ms. Worcel has served as Co-Principal Investigator or Project Director for numerous evaluations of child care quality improvement programs, family treatment drug courts, and other early childhood, substance abuse prevention, and criminal justice projects. Her duties included project management, staff supervision, overseeing administrative and field-based data collection, data analysis, and report writing.

Ms. Worcel holds a Master of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Davis, and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy.

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