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Consultants
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Jenn Beyers, PhD
Senior Associate
jbeyers@organizationalresearch.com
Jenn comes to ORS with a strong foundation of work promoting positive youth development. Jenn received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Indiana University, Bloomington, where she focused on child and adolescent psychology and researched neighborhood influences on parenting and youth behavior. As a post doctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh and a research scientist at the University of Washington, she honed her skills in the analysis of complex data sets and published widely on the influence of families, communities, and culture on youth development. Jenn left academia to do evaluation research at Casey Family Programs (CFP), where she served as the lead evaluator for the Powerful Families program, a family-strengthening program for low-income families comprised of three 9-week curricula aimed at increasing parents' financial literacy, advocacy, and leadership skills and behaviors. Jenn also worked with a wide range of stakeholders to design and implement a process evaluation of the multi-agency collaborations aimed at improving services for kinship families and youth transitioning out of the foster care system in which CFP's regional field offices are engaged.
Jenn lives in Columbia City with her husband, two young boys, and cat. An immigrant from New Jersey, Jenn is completely enamored of the Pacific Northwest and hopes to resume snowboarding and hiking more than a mile when the boys grow up a bit. In the mean time she enjoys the region through eating local food and drink with friends.
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Emily Boardman, BA
Research Assistant
eboardman@organizationalresearch.com
Emily Boardman joined ORS in September 2011 in a Research Assistant capacity. Emily earned a BA in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. As a student she spent a semester in a community health experiential learning program in South Africa through the School for International Training; while there she had the opportunity to assist with health promotions research for the Center for AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA). She is the recipient of a Richard A. Gephardt Institute for Public Service fellowship for her work with the St. Louis Crime Victim Advocacy Center. Her professional and volunteer endeavors have always centered around social justice, and have included work for a community mental health agency, an anti-discrimination law practice, a rape crisis hotline, and the local Child Care Resources office. She is always learning and enjoys trying out new skills and activities; current favorites are step aerobics, quilting, and reading up on theories of adult community education. Emily is excited to have joined the fantastic ORS team.
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Cameron Clark, MPA/MAIS
Associate
cclark@organizationalresearch.com
Cameron joined ORS in 2011 and brings a strong background in advocacy, public administration, and policy analysis to his consulting perspective. He enjoys the mission-oriented work of ORS’s clients and is motivated by the people and causes they serve.
Cameron holds an MPA from the Evans School of Public Affairs, an MAIS from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and a BA in History from Connecticut College with a foci on evaluation, quantitative and qualitative analysis, management and economics. He carries a broad spectrum of professional experiences from working as a homeless advocate and public housing planner in Boston to working with a community development foundation in Guatemala. While in graduate school, Cameron conducted analysis and research for the Evans Policy Analysis and Research Group, and completed an evaluation and strategic plan for an emerging agricultural marketing NGO in Uttarakhand, India. As a capstone degree project for his MAIS degree, he researched and authored an analysis of the shifting dynamics and corporatization of the Fair Trade Coffee industry.
The Portland, Maine native currently lives with his wife Julie in Capitol Hill along with their dog Teddy. In his free time, he can be found enjoying the mountains, playing soccer, and avidly following Boston sports teams.
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Joelle Cook, MPA
Associate
jcook@organizationalresearch.com
Joelle joined the ORS team in 2009 after receiving a Master in Public Administration degree from the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs. She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Iowa, with a major in Political Science and a minor in Statistics. Joelle brings a strong research background to ORS, having worked as a Research Assistant for two years while at the Evans School. During this time, Joelle contributed to research on higher education policy and international agricultural policy.
As part of her Evans School program, Joelle worked with the U.S. Peace Corps as an NGO Advisor and Community Health Extension Worker in Sotouboua, Togo. During her two years in Sotouboua, Joelle led a small association of people living with HIV/AIDS through the strategic planning process. She also created and carried out the organization's needs assessment survey. Prior to joining Peace Corps and finishing her masters, Joelle did immigration casework for an Iowa Senator and a Washington Congressman. She also worked as an Outreach Assistant for the University of Iowa International Programs.
Growing up in Iowa, Joelle has always been an explorer. In addition to living in Togo, she has traveled Europe, studied in Wales, and worked on an archaeological dig in the Netherlands. She also enjoys exploring rural areas of the United States. Working with ORS is a great fit for Joelle because the diverse clientele - from librarians in Iowa to leaders in international development - allows her to explore new fields and constantly learn new things.
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Juli Forman, MA
Senior Associate
jforman@organizationalresearch.com
Juli Forman came to ORS after 20 years of senior positions in two well-regarded local research agencies. She brings analytic thinking to the design and implementation process, as well as lending particular expertise in measurement and analysis.
Juli holds an M.A. in Geography from the University of Washington, with a sub-specialization in statistics. After receiving her Master’s, she worked for Gilmore Research Group, covering a myriad of public and private industries, including transportation, health care, and employee evaluation. More recently, as Senior Associate at Elway Research, she focused in the public sector, with a particular emphasis in environmental behaviors and government performance.
Juli brings a “cross-pollination” of ideas from seemingly different industries, as well as a belief that all brands of evaluation are not as different as may first appear. She lives in North Seattle as an “almost empty nester,” with her oldest daughter away at college and her son in high school. She relaxes by making beaded necklaces while watching a few reality-TV shows that she is too embarrassed to name.
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Kasey Langley, MPP
Senior Associate
klangley@organizationalresearch.com
Kasey's diverse background working for a direct service provider, national non-profit group, and federal and county agencies help her relate to clients and empathize with their unique challenges and perspectives. Her coaching philosophy is to meet clients "where they are," resulting in empowered clients who can produce, understand and use reliable outcomes data about the changes their programs create for individuals and families.
Kasey holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. She thrives on her work at ORS because the firm's philosophy and methods keep her close to the direct service providers, children and families who benefit from the positive changes achieved by clients.
The Colorado Springs native previously worked with Spanish-speaking immigrants in rural Iowa as a VISTA volunteer and served on the Labor and Human Resources Committee staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. An avid telemark skier, backpacker and kayaker, she has also racked up thousands of miles in her world travels -including visits to South America and South Africa. More recently however, Kasey has been sticking closer to home and lives in West Seattle with her and husband and two young children.
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Paula Rowland, PhD
Senior Associate
prowland@organizationalresearch.com
Paula Rowland joined ORS in 2011. She brings a unique blend of skills with nonprofits, cultural competence from working cross-culturally, and experience as a program evaluation consultant to improve education, health and social programs at community, state, national and international levels. After working as an independent consultant while raising her family, she is excited about joining the ORS team because she loves to be around people and thinks more creatively in a buzz of activity.
Paula grew up in Mexico City, leaving the bustling metropolis to attend college North Carolina. She has always been passionate about issues of poverty so with a newly minted degree in Nutrition and a heart full of idealism, she set out on a trip around the world that included a year on the Thai Cambodian border volunteering in refugee camps. Wanting to have greater impact on the global problems she was witnessing, she went to UCLA for a M.P.H. in International Health and a Ph.D. in Comparative International Education, doing research among rural communities in Mexico and Paraguay in the process. Marrying her husband John and having three children slowed down the travel a bit but not completely. With two toddlers in tow, she and her husband spent time volunteering in a rural hospital in Kenya and several years later, with 3 school-aged children, lived on a hospital ship off the coast of West Africa. Since 2000, she has been involved in running a Seattle-based nonprofit that helps women in developing countries gain access to clean water, education and income opportunities. She is fluent in Spanish and has lived and volunteered in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Her hobbies include people of all sorts and travel to anywhere. Paula loves to cook, entertain, and not garden!
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