Meredith Dost is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Better Government Lab and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Her research investigates the relationship between the administrative state and the public through the lenses of public administration, federalism, and policy feedback. Bringing together disparate data sources, Meredith quantitatively analyzes the dynamics of policy implementation across place and time as well as their effects on ordinary citizens’ lives. Previously, she was a National Poverty Fellow at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a PhD in Government and Social Policy from Harvard University.