George Grob (Chair), Center for Public Program Evaluation 

George Grob is President, Center for Public Program Evaluation, an evaluation company focusing on public policy, strategic planning, and communications. He has been a lifelong civil servant, serving now as a senior evaluation executive at the Federal Housing Finance Agency and previously at the Department of Health and Human Services and as Executive Director of the Citizens’ Healthcare Working Group, a commission charged with developing options for health care reform. 

 

 

Leslie Cooksy, University of Delaware

Leslie Cooksy is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Delaware, where she teaches Research Methodology and Evaluation.  She is jointly appointed in the Delaware Education Research & Development Center, where she leads evaluation projects.  Leslie was president of the American Evaluation Association in 2010.  In 1993, she was awarded AEA’s Marcia Guttentag Award in recognition of contributions to evaluation practice through her work at the U.S. General Accounting Office.   She has worked on international projects, both as an evaluation consultant to the World Bank and as a former Peace Corps volunteer.

 

Laura Leviton, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Laura Leviton is Senior Adviser for Evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  Since joining RWJF in 1999, she has overseen more than 80 evaluations in most of RWJF’s areas of focus, including smoking and childhood obesity.   Previously, she was a professor of public health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public Health. She is a leading writer on evaluation methods and practice, in particular for disease prevention, and has published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals, numerous book chapters, and several books.  She was president of the American Evaluation Association in 2000.

 

Mel Mark, Penn State University

Mel Mark is Professor and Head of Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University.  He has served as President of the American Evaluation Association and as Editor of the American Journal of Evaluation (for which he is now Editor Emeritus). Dr. Mark’s interests include the theory, methodology and practice of program and policy evaluation, as well as the application of social psychology.  He is the author of numerous books, including) Multiple Methods in Program Evaluation (1987), Realist Evaluation (1998), SAGE Handbook of Evaluation (2006), What Counts as Credible Evidence in Applied Research and Evaluation Practice (2009), Evaluation in Action: Interviews with Expert Evaluators (2008), Evaluation Policy and Evaluation Practice, (2009), Social Psychology and Evaluation (2011) and Validity in Outcome Evaluation (in press). 

Michael Morris, University of New Haven

Michael Morris is Professor of Psychology at the University of New Haven, where he directs the Master’s Program in Community Psychology.  His research on ethical issues in evaluation is widely cited, and his most recent book is Evaluation Ethics for Best Practice: Cases and Commentaries (Guilford Press, 2008).  Dr. Morris is Associate Editor of the American Journal of Evaluation, and on the faculty of The Evaluators’ Institute at the George Washington University.

 

 

Kathy Newcomer, George Washington University

Kathryn Newcomer is Director of the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Administration at the George Washington University, where she teaches public and nonprofit, program evaluation, research design and applied statistics.  She is also a non-residential Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Board Member of the American Evaluation Association.  Dr. Newcomer has published five books and numerous articles.  She routinely conducts research and training for government agencies and nonprofits on performance measurement and program evaluation.

 

Joy Quill, C.J. Quill & Associates, Inc.

Joy Quill heads her own consulting firm, C. J. Quill & Associates, Inc., offering practical evaluation consulting and effective writing training since 1995.  In recent years, her evaluations have focused primarily on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education.  Previously, she spent many years in the federal government, including serving as Regional Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections, in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General.  Joy is a long-time EERS board member, including two terms as President.  

 

Nick Smith, Syracuse University

Nick Smith is a professor of instructional design, development, and evaluation. His research focuses on the theory and methods of evaluation of educational and social programs, specifically on investigative methods in applied fields of inquiry. Smith has served on numerous editorial boards, including as past editor-in-chief of New Directions for Program Evaluation. He has also edited such volumes as Metaphors for Evaluation: Sources of New Methods; New Techniques for Evaluation; Communication Strategies in Evaluation; and Varieties of Investigative Evaluation. In 2004, he served as president of the American Evaluation Association.