Mary Kate Schroeter was a Fellow with the Government Performance Lab working the City of Chicago's Department of Family and Support Services to increase exits to permanent housing for homeless families by strengthening connections to employment programs. Prior to GPL, Mary Kate served as a Global Health Corps Fellow in Uganda providing monitoring & evaluation support to country programs in East Africa. Mary Kate has also worked in tech startups, including an app for SNAP recipients that serves over 1.5 million Americans as the team's social worker communicating with app users and assisting them in finding other social services. Mary Kate has also worked in direct social services and social work research in her home state of Vermont. Mary Kate holds a BS in Social Work from the University of Vermont and a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan.