Consultants

Vivian Figueredo
Vivian Figueredo is President of Voz Evaluation Consulting, https://vivianfigueredo.com/ Vivian specializes in evaluating non-profit programs and initiatives and in providing training and technical assistance to organizations conducting internal evaluation. She has over 20 years of experience conducting program evaluations, with expertise in culturally responsive evaluation. Vivian has evaluated programs in a range of areas, including community and economic development, workforce development, financial literacy, education, youth development, college access and success, and the arts. Recent examples of evaluations Vivian has led include evaluations of the Strengthening the Corridor Management Initiative of the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations, the Skilled Immigrant Integration Project of Global Talent Bridge, and the Reimagining Community Engagement series for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. 


Prior to embarking on independent work, Vivian spent eight years as a staff consultant with the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning (now Equal Measure), a national research and evaluation firm, where she specialized in managing evaluations involving theory of change, evaluation planning, and survey design, among other methods. 


Prior to her evaluation work, Vivian was a program manager with St. Joseph's Carpenter Society, a community development corporation in Camden, New Jersey; before that, she spent three years at Cáritas del Perú, a large Peruvian nonprofit organization, where she led the organization's internal capacity building activities. Vivian holds a Master's in public affairs from Princeton University and a B.A. in history from Tulane University. She is a native Spanish speaker.


Elena Tamanas Ragusa
Elena Tamanas Ragusa is the founder and CEO of Drive Evaluation Studio, https://driveevaluation.com/ a  boutique consulting firm providing the social sector with learning and evaluation consulting services. Elena has extensive experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods, organizational and community psychology, program assessment, and systems evaluation. 

Before building out the Studio, Elena was the senior executive director of enrollment strategy and analytics for Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where her work focused on using data to design and execute collaborative strategies to enroll, retain, and graduate a diverse and accomplished student body.  Before her 10 years at Rutgers, she served as a project manager at OMG Center for Collaborative Learning (now Equal Measure) – a national research and evaluation consulting firm based in Philadelphia, PA, and worked for Teach for America.

Elena earned a Doctorate of Psychology (Psy.D) and M.A. in organizational psychology from the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University and B.A.s in psychology and sociology from Rutgers University.


Jodi Paroff
​​Jodi F. Paroff is an independent program evaluation consultant and data analyst. Recent work conducted by Jodi includes needs assessments for ACLAMO and GERA, two community nonprofits serving vulnerable residents and refugees. She is currently analyzing patient experience with peer mentors data for NYC Health+Hospitals' diabetes research, as well as action research for the Salvation Army’s Connecticut expansion of their Bloom Anti-Human Trafficking initiative. She conducted data analysis and survey assessment and revision for BoardLead in NYC, and implemented and analyzed data from parent focus groups for a Rutgers study of the quality of NJ early childcare. She has consulted for Evaluation Services, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, ctHumanities Foundation, the Newark Public Schools, the University of Pennsylvania and the American Museum of Natural History. Ms. Paroff enjoys small community- based evaluation planning, empowering field staff to creatively develop and refine approaches that use data to improve services for clients. For the last 10 years Jodi taught the program evaluation and analysis course at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Paroff earned her BS in Biology from Cornell University and her MPA from NYU Wagner.

Tia Burroughs Clayton
Tia Burroughs Clayton is a nonprofit and philanthropic consultant with over 15 years of experience. Tia started her career in direct service at several nonprofit organizations in Philadelphia, including BEBASHI and Prevention Point Philadelphia. She then worked on evaluation and capacity-building projects for the U.S. Department of Education and of Health and Human Services, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Foundation for Child Development, and the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation. Since 2020, Tia has worked as a consultant through her company, TBC Consulting, L.L.C. Tia provides capacity building, meeting facilitation, and evaluation services to clients across the country. She manages evaluations of programs that pertain to child and maternal health, mental health, and substance use treatment. Her recent clients include the Health Federation of Philadelphia, The City of Philadelphia's Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity, The Patricia Kind Family Foundation, and the Public Health Management Corporation.  Tia has a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Social Service, and a Master of Law and Social Policy from Bryn Mawr College. 

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Anita Baker
Anita Baker has worked as an evaluator for more than 30 years.  She specializes in conducting external evaluations of non-profit programs, and in providing technical assistance for organizations conducting self-assessments or participatory evaluations.  She has designed, directed and participated on evaluation teams focused on a wide range of subjects including youth development, employment and training,  arts education, community schools, community-based collaborations and integrated services, afterschool education, services to seniors, foster care and transitional and supportive housing, college preparation, technical assistance, and organizational evaluation capacity building.  Anita also provides training and coaching for non-profit and philanthropic staff seeking to build evaluation capacity and enhance evaluative thinking in their organizations.  Since 2006, she has been working closely with the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving providing training to many local area nonprofit organizations.  She has designed a comprehensive set of evaluation training materials and evaluative thinking assessment tools which are available free of charge on her website, http://www.evaluationservices.co

Anita Baker earned her Doctorate in Education from Columbia University, Teacher’s College in 1991, (Educational Administration with a focus on Evaluation), has maintained a successful independent evaluation consulting service for more than 15 years and formerly served as a project director and senior program officer of the Academy for Educational Development in New York City, and as a project director at the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning in Philadelphia.

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