Ken Burchfiel is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. Before joining the IFS, he served as a mental health counselor with Catholic Charities of Evansville and worked in a data analytics role at Seton Education Partners. He received a Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Columbia Business School. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and creating and sharing open-source Python projects. He lives in Charlottesville, VA with his wife and children.