Resume Highlights

Evaluation Director, Sierra Health Foundation (2012-2021). As the Foundation's first Evaluation Director, I built the evaluation department, managed evaluation contracts, and developed staff capacity in evaluation. Signature projects were the Black Child Legacy Campaign, a program supporting community-based organizations that were and are working to increase the safety of youth in their communities, and the San Joaquin Valley Health Fund, a place-based initiative to improve health and racial equity in the San Joaquin Valley. In both projects, I worked closely with community-based organizations and sought to advance their program and advocacy activities with appropriate evaluation approaches.

Assistant and Associate Professor, University of Delaware (1998-2005 and 2007-2012). I taught courses in introductory evaluation, evaluation theory, qualitative methods,  and research methods, mentored graduate students, and led a range of evaluation projects for state, local, federal, and international agencies.

Center Director, University of Delaware (2002-2005) and University of California, Davis (2005-2007). I directed the Center for Community Research & Service at the University of Delaware and the Center for Tobacco Control Evaluation at UC Davis. In both positions, I worked with center staff, university administration, and community clients, as well as managing budgets and a portfolio of public service projects.

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• Member of the Keeping our Promise: A Guide for Evaluation in Sacramento’s Promise Zone advisory group for the UC Davis Center for Regional Change (2018).

• Reviewer of the quality of evaluation reports for the Independent Evaluation Arrangement of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) (2015).

• Member of the Standing Panel on Monitoring and Evaluation for the CGIAR's Science Council (2004-2006, 2008).​

• Member of the National Science Foundation’s Expert Panel on Assuring Quality in Program and Project Evaluation (2010-2011).​

• University of Delaware. Member of the Delaware Health Care Innovation Model Evaluation Advisory Group (Center for Medicaid and Medicare Innovation grant, 2016-17).

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President, American Evaluation Association (2010)

Associate Editor, American Journal of Evaluation (1998-2004)

Member, Board of Directors, American Evaluation Association (1995-1997, 2009-2011)

U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, Sierra Leone (1981-1983)

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PhD, Human Service Studies: Program Evaluation and Public Policy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1989).

MS, Rural Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1986).

BS, Applied Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis (1981).