Valeria Butler, ACF, HHS; Data Governance Lead in the Division of Data and Improvement

Valeria Butler is the Lead for Data Governance in the Division of Data and Improvement in the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF). In this role, she seeks to improve ACF’s data governance practices in order to make data more usable, more accessible, and more protected. She has 25 years of experience in research, analysis, and data governance. Prior to joining OPRE, she was the lead statistician for the Office of Data Analysis, Research and Evaluation in ACYF and a member of the Children’s Bureau Data Team since 2005. Prior to that, she was a research analyst for a professional healthcare nonprofit. Additional areas of expertise include leveraging administrative data to further human services research, data analytics and data visualization, agile project management and human centered design. Ms. Butler’s educational background is in Sociology with a focus on social science research.