Meet Our Team
The Northwestern University Program Evaluation Core team members consist of faculty, PhD and Masters level staff with expertise in evaluations focusing on higher education and training. Our team members have served as PIs and Co-PIs on federally funded grants and have led the evaluation of grants funded by NSF, NIH, AHRQ, USAID, and DoS. Engineering Research Centers, Early Career Awards, T32/KL1, TL2 & R25 training programs, D43 training programs, PIRE & IRES programs, STEM centers, summer research programs for undergraduates and USAID funded programs are some of the areas our team members have experience with. Members of our evaluation team belong to the American Evaluation Association and the Chicagoland Evaluation Association.
| Faculty Director: Bennett Goldberg, PhD |
| Executive Director: Denise Drane, PhD, MPH Areas of interest: utilization focused evaluation, inclusive evaluation methods, training program evaluation, evaluation in international contexts |
| Evaluation Specialist: Katya Bitkin, MSc Areas of interest: evaluation tool design, art-based methods of evaluation, engaging artistic expression as evaluation data, graduate training program evaluation, evaluation of programs with international component, evaluation for program planning |
| Evaluation Specialist: Caroline Freitag, PhD Areas of interest: participatory evaluation, embedded evaluation, undergraduate research programs evaluation, aligning and integrating evaluation with education and training programs, science of team science, team science assessment and evaluation |
| Evaluation Specialist: Sara Woods, MScEd Areas of interest: graduate training program evaluation, undergraduate research programs evaluation, participatory evaluation, evaluation tool design |
| Business Analyst: Yan Qiu |