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Asalamalekum!!  My name is Tristi Nichols, and I am a principal at Manitou, Inc, and I currently serve as the Secretary for Washington Evaluators.

I am Ashima Singh, a consultant who began her career in evaluation, went to higher education (HE) assessment and accreditation (both specialized evaluations), and then hung up her own shingle at Ashima Singh Consulting (ASC). I learned key lessons in HE that have informed my work at ASC.

My name is Malasia Williams, I am the Evaluation Coordinator at the National Diaper Bank Network (NDBN). At NDBN, our goal is to make sure every child, family, and individual in the U.S. has access to the material basic needs they require to thrive. We maintain a member network of more than 300 basic needs banks that work in local communities throughout the United States.

Hi! I’m Fatima Léonora Baldé, an M&E and communications consultant based in Dakar, Senegal. I work with a youth development program under the Mastercard Foundation and with a zero-waste civil society organization tracking its communications impact. My work has pushed me to sit with a question that doesn’t get asked often enough: useful to whom, and in what room?

Hello! My name isJoselin Bravo Bueno, and I am a research scientist in the Public Health Department at NORC at the University of Chicago.

Hi, my name is Neesha Roberts. I come to you from Washington, DC as a doctoral student in the DEval program at Claremont Graduate University, with one hot tip for consideration: surfacing ambivalence with stakeholders early—and with regularity—not only improves their overall experience of evaluators, it also increases the likelihood that findings will actually be used.

Hi, I’m Dr. Danielle Gilmore. I work in evaluation and governance, focusing on how lived experience informs decision-making. I want to share a lesson I keep seeing: lived experience is widely valued, but hard to operationalize in practice.

Hi there! I am Elizabeth Botkin, a member of the Washington Evaluators affiliate and a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at the U.S. Department of State (DoS). I want to tell you a story about how I became an evaluator to hopefully normalize the twisty turny paths a lot of evaluators take.

Hi! I’m Mary Ann Aabye, a member of Washington Evaluators and a monitoring and evaluation specialist for the federal government. 

As a federal employee, I never expected to find myself in the midst of a job hunt. But here I am, anticipating a transition I hadn’t planned for. Faced with the challenge of writing cover letters for unfamiliar roles and industries, I’m exploring ChatGPT for help transferring my evaluation skills to other industries. What I discovered was a game-changer—AI that could take the stress out of drafting, revising, and personalizing cover letters, making a once time-consuming task far more efficient.

Hi! My name is Nicole Germano, and I am a federal evaluator and the Communications Chair for Washington Evaluators.

Like many in our field, I did not set out to be an evaluator. I studied journalism with the hopes of covering breaking news or even using my writing skills to become the next Don Draper (à la Mad Men). In my first post-college job, I found myself doing website analytics and reporting on the success of various digital marketing campaigns for an advertising agency, where I quickly realized…I was in the wrong industry.