Natalie serves as an equity consultant, coach, evaluator, facilitator, and researcher. She provides services to the North East, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, Mountain Plains, and West regions through online, in-person, and hybrid formats.
Work Highlights She has worked with governing bodies of an organization, individuals in a formal leadership role, individuals who oversee operations of teams, staff/key personnel or volunteers within an organization, and community members. She has served and partnered with various populations, including Middle Eastern or North African, White/Caucasian, Black/African American, immigrants, and Appalachians.
Professional Summary Natalie has facilitated evaluation capacity building (ECB) workshops since 2009 and has been infusing an equity lens in that work ever since. She developed a social justice-oriented approach to ECB—transformative ECB, which promotes understanding and appreciation for data and evaluation as well as a lens that centers cultural humility, compassion, and a concern for human dignity. In addition to teaching equity-focused evaluation, she has delivered diversity, equity, and inclusion-related presentations at the annual American Evaluation Association conference. Natalie has co-authored publications, such as “Centering cultural responsiveness in the evaluation of community-based education.”
Lived Experience Natalie is a Public Health professor and transformative evaluator specializing in equity-focused evaluation. Through her dissertation, she developed a social justice-oriented approach to evaluation capacity building that includes principles of equity and social determinants. She is also a member of the Advancing Culturally responsive Evaluation (ACE) Network.