Ms. Halperin worked with DMA as a subcontractor and subsequently joined the firm in 2014 as a Senior Associate, becoming a Principal in 2019. She served as a member of DMA’s Management Team, the Board Vice President, and had a lead role in planning and implementing DMA’s cooperative conversion. In August 2025, she resumed her status as a subcontractor and continues to support ongoing DMA projects. Ms. Halperin has provided program management, evaluation, technical assistance, and proposal and report writing services to numerous social service agencies, health care providers, community hospitals, and nonprofit organizations. She has two decades of federal, state, and foundation grant writing experience and currently serves as Project Manager and Lead Evaluator for several SAMHSA-funded Certified Community Behavioral Health Center Expansion grantees, Community Mental Health Center grantees, and Evaluator for a Building Communities of Recovery grant and a MAT Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse grant.

Ms. Halperin has considerable experience working with MA state human service agencies, facilitating dozens of listening sessions, focus groups (some conducted in Spanish and Haitian Creole), planning meetings, and key informant interviews.  For the Office of the Child Advocate (OCA), she conducted elements of the evaluation of statewide Family Resource Center network that culminated in OCA submitting a report to the Massachusetts Legislature with findings and recommendations to increase access and improve service delivery. She has provided ongoing technical assistance and support to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Bureau of Substance Addiction Services particularly around Recovery Support Services and Workforce Development. Ms. Halperin co-led the Bureau’s FY18 Massachusetts Recovery Coach Workforce Scan, presented findings to the Governor’s Recovery Coach Commission, and led the Bureau’s 2021 Recovery Coaching Landscape project. She previously served as the project manager and one of the lead evaluators for DMA’s five-year evaluation of Caring Together, the Department of Child and Families’ Title IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project to redesign the Commonwealth’s residential and community-based services in partnership with the Department of Mental Health. Ms. Halperin earned her Masters of Public Health from Boston University and Bachelors of Arts with honors in Anthropology and African Studies from Beloit College.