Heike Boeltzig
Research Associate
Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI)
UMass Boston

Heike Boeltzig is a Research Associate at the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) and a Ph.D. candidate at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston Massachusetts. Her key research interests center on disability and employment issues.

Most recently she participated in a project funded by the U.S. Department of Labor (U.S. DOL) Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) that identified effective practices, barriers, successful strategies, and policy recommendations to better serve persons with psychiatric disabilities through the workforce development system. In addition she is a lead researcher in a multi-year comparative policy study of One-Stop Career Centers and Workforce Investment Boards identified as providing exemplary services to customers, including those with disabilities. The research is part of The National Center on Workforce and Disability/Adult (NCWD), funded by the U.S. DOL/ODEP.