About
A practitioner at the intersection of evaluation, learning, and strategy.
What I Do
Turning evidence into learning. Learning into change.
I’m an evaluation and learning professional who partners with mission-driven organizations to turn evidence into insight, and insight into action. With more than two decades of experience across government, education, public health, and the nonprofit sector, I’ve come to believe that lasting change starts with thoughtful inquiry and genuine collaboration — not just data.
My work draws on evaluation, facilitation, organizational learning, and capacity strengthening — always in service of helping organizations learn together, adapt with confidence, and create change that lasts.
How I Work
Four principles
Rigor
Rigor means matching the approach to the question, the context, and what we need to understand.
Collaboration
Great things happen when different perspectives, strengths, and experiences are brought together.
Learning
Evidence has value when it helps us question, understand, adapt, and move forward.
Common Good
Our work should expand understanding, honor different ways of knowing, and contribute to decisions that improve the lives of people and communities.
My Journey
Three chapters, one throughline
How do we create the conditions for evidence and experience to become learning — and for that learning to shape what happens next?
Public Policy & Government
2006–2013 · Advising senior government leaders on policy and programs, leading sector relations, and supporting organizational management.
Evaluation & Applied Research
2014–2018 · Designing and leading evaluations across sectors at the Claremont Evaluation Center while completing doctoral research.
Strategic Learning & Impact Assessment
2015–Present · Co-leading an evaluation, research, and learning practice as Co-founder, The Open Canopy.
Credentials
- PhD, Evaluation & Applied Research MethodsClaremont Graduate University
- MA, PsychologyClaremont Graduate University
- MPA, Public PolicyUniversity of Regina
Membership
- American Evaluation Association (AEA)2015–Present
- AEA Organizational Learning & Evaluation Capacity Building TIG, Member-at-Large2026–Present
- International Association of Facilitators2024–Present
Publications
- Evaluation from Both Sides Now: Towards an Epistemology of Evaluation Practice
CGU Theses & Dissertations · 2022 - Planting the Seeds for High-Quality Program Evaluation in Public Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2021 - Learning and Growing through Evaluation: Asthma Program Evaluation Guide
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2021 - The Manifestations of Politics in Evaluation: An Exploratory Study Across the Evaluation Process
Evaluation and Program Planning · 2021 - Evaluative Thinking in Practice: The National Asthma Control Program
New Directions for Evaluation · 2018
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