Kinsey Alden Dinan

Senior Policy Associate
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Kinsey Dinan’s research focuses on low-wage work and work supports, child poverty, and children in immigrant families. Her goal is to promote the economic security and well-being of low-income children and families through research-informed policy change. She leads the Making Work Supports Work initiative, assessing federal and state work support policies and collaborating with policymakers, researchers, and advocates to identify and promote policy reforms. The initiative builds on NCCP’s innovative policy analysis tools, the Family Resource Simulator and the Basic Needs Budget Calculator.

Kinsey's other areas of expertise include national immigration policies, trafficking in women, and related international human rights standards, and she has published in these areas. Kinsey came to NCCP from the Women's Rights and Asia divisions of Human Rights Watch, and prior to that position, worked as a researcher in Nepal.

Kinsey holds a Master's degree in International Relations from Yale University and a B.A. in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.