Executive Committee

President

Sheila Rodriguez

Senior Technical Assistance and Training Associate, EDC

Sheila is currently the Senior Technical Assistance and Training Associate at Education Development Center (EDC) in Chicago, IL. She has extensive experience in evaluation and education research. She started her career, over 12 years ago, as a researcher and was given the opportunity to do some evaluation work, specifically in the afterschool realm and she fell in love with evaluation and has not looked back ever since. She continues to grow in her understanding and experience in evaluation work and the importance of evaluation in education. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Education Studies from Brown University and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Argosy University–Schaumburg. She is fluent in English and Spanish.

Vice President

Treasurer

Christina Iyengar, DrPH

Lead Evaluator, Rush University Medical Center
Christina_Iyengar@rush.edu

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Secretary

Toi Wise

Education Evaluation and Data Specialist, Enlace Chicago

toi.wise15@gmail.com

Toi Wise currently serves as the Education Evaluation and Data Specialist for Enlace Chicago, a community-based nonprofit in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. In this Specialist role, she supports youth programming by leading the planning and execution of an annual evaluation, analyzing various data for grant reporting, and fostering staff evaluation capacity building. Toi was a 2021 CEA-CREA scholarship recipient and a 2022 member of Evaluation Pathways Initiative’s first cohort of the Emerging Evaluators program. She holds a Master of Education in Youth Development from the University of Illinois Chicago. Prior to joining Enlace, Toi worked in elementary classrooms in roles such as Special Education Classroom Assistant. Through her transition from the classroom to evaluation, she strives to incorporate and promote positive youth development in her work and be an agent of change within the out-of-school time space. Her commitment to promoting equitable opportunities for success outside of the classroom guides her work to be a facilitator, collaborator, counselor, and educator in the evaluation field.

Committee Leadership

Communications and Website (Co-chair)

Brad Krueger

Evaluation Consultant, Krueger Consulting

Brad@bkruegerconsulting.com

Brad is a passionate, equity-focused, relationship-centric evaluator. He thrives on building systems to collect, review, and present data. He humbly embraces opportunities leverage data to support the mission and impact of organizations he is privileged to support. He received his Masters of Public Health from Des Moines University in 2017 after completing his Bachelor of Science in Biology from Bethel University. Since, he has worked as an evaluation consultant with a small firm in Minneapolis and now independently from Chicago.

Past President

Asma Ali, PhD

Founder and Principal Consultant,

AA & Associates, LLC

asma.ali1@gmail.com

Dr. Ali’s work includes developing and implementing strategic evaluation plans to support evidence-based decision-making that advances organization and program goals. Employing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches, she specializes in culturally responsive, participatory, and utilization-focused measurement of learning, behavioral, and systems change. An AEA Graduate Education Diversity Initiative Alumna (2008-9), she has also served on AEA's Culturally Responsive Evaluation Committee, is a founder and co-Chair of the Health Professions Topical Interest Group, and served as Program Chair for the LaRed Topical Interest Group. She is a frequent invited speaker at national conferences on evaluation and measurement topics. Dr. Ali has also served as an adjunct professor teaching evaluation, design-based inquiry, and research methods courses.