Until 1974, she was director of special projects and studies and a consultant for the
New York City Human Resources Administration. She joined MDRC as research director at its founding in 1974 and served as its president from 1986 to 2004. In 2004–2005 she was a visiting scholar of the
Russell Sage Foundation, an organization devoted to research in the social sciences. She also serves on the boards of directors of
Alcoa, the
National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. She is a past president of the
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. In 1988, Gueron was awarded the
American Evaluation Association’s Myrdal Prize for Evaluation Practice. In 2005, she received the first Richard E. Neustadt Award from the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, "bestowed annually to an individual who has created powerful solutions to public problems, drawing on research and intellectual ideas as appropriate." In 2008 she received the
Peter H. Rossi Award from APPAM, which "[recognizes] important contributions to the theory or practice of program evaluation." ==Education==