Nancy Pindus is an Urban Institute associate in the Housing and Communities Division at the Urban Institute, where she is an experienced policy researcher and project manager, specializing in program evaluation, organizational behavior, cost analysis, and service delivery. Her research projects have taken her to communities across the country, examining program implementation and operations through interviews, on-site observations, and focus groups. She has studied economic development, welfare reform, employment and training, food assistance, and public health programs. She has also examined coordination across agencies and systems, as well as local capacity building in many studies.

Pindus has been with Urban for more than 35 years. From April 2009 through June 2010, she served as the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center’s acting center director. She also codirected a four-year evaluation of the New Markets Tax Credit Program, including administrative data analysis, surveys, and in-depth telephone interviews. Pindus directed a national study of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian housing needs and a national study of the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations. Her most recent work focuses tribal research and economic development. Pindus often serves as an adviser on other Urban evaluations, on program implementation in Indian Country and in rural areas, and on federal and tribal research review requirements.

Pindus holds a BA in biology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a certified public accountant licensed in Maryland.