Ms. Langley earned her Master’s in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked for the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee and for the Child Welfare League of America. As a VISTA volunteer in Storm Lake, Iowa, Ms. Langley provided social services outreach, as well as interpretation and translation services, to a rapidly growing Spanish-speaking immigrant population.

With her experience at the local, regional and national level, Ms. Langley is sensitive to the importance of a strong, data-driven connection between the day-to-day reality of social services provision and the policies that guide and fund those services. Ms. Langley has conducted research for the Alameda County Social Services Agency, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Child Welfare League of America, and AtKisson, Inc., a sustainability consultancy in Seattle, Washington.