Alyssa Huberts is a Senior Social Scientist at the Lab @ DDOT, where she brings her passion for cities and program evaluation to local research projects. She is especially passionate about everyday urban services like buses and trash collection, which residents might not always think of as government.
Alyssa first joined the team as a Social Scientist at the Lab @ DC, where she worked on projects with DCFD, WMATA and DDOT. In 2025, she moved over to DDOT to join the first “agency lab”, The Lab @ DDOT. At DDOT, she has worked on projects related to parking, digital curb infrastructure, traffic safety and equity, and bikeshare revenue. She loves being at an agency lab because of the opportunities to jump in and help on “quick response” requests.
Alyssa believes in the “right method for the right question,” and has used field surveys, web-scraping, interviews, and quasi-experimental designs in her research. Prior to joining the Lab, she studied urban service provision in Mexico City and helped Allegheny County in Pennsylvania design the evaluation for a program for low-income mothers. Alyssa holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and a BSFS in International Political Economy from Georgetown University, and she has taught courses on statistical methods and urban politics at Georgetown and GW. Alyssa lives with her family in Brookland and loves growing vegetables, biking, and baking.