Marie Fritz

Professorial Lecturer
Washington Semester

• Dr. Fritz has over 15 years of experience in community development, direct social services, and policy research and analysis. She has worked in a variety of programmatic areas, with particular experience in anti-poverty programs, low-income housing, informal settlements, intimate partner violence, financial literacy, and poverty law. After college she spent one year living and working in a homeless shelter as part of a volunteer service program. As a consultant, Dr. Fritz specializes in evaluation and outcomes measurement for non-profits, including logic model and theory of change development, program design, and mission-to-outcomes alignment.
  
  Dr. Fritz' dissertation explored the relationship between nuclear family hegemony and U.S. housing policy development. She has taught university courses related to social policy history, law, and political theory, including Gender and the Law and Critical Race Theory. Her academic research and writing focuses on the intersection of social policy, urban planning, political ideology, and the built environment. She is currently developing a project to examine the relationship between caring employment and metropolitan transportation patterns.

• Degrees

  Ph.D., University of Maryland