Katya Bitkin
Evaluation Specialist, Northwestern University Program Evaluation Core
Katya joined the Northwestern University community in 2016 as a research project coordinator, and has since found a calling as an evaluator. For the past three years Katya has been working with Denise Drane as a program evaluator on a five-year interdisciplinary art conservation science training program, CuBISM, supported by an NSF PIRE grant. Evaluating this program offers Katya an elegant combination of her background in engineering, training in art, and experience in art conservation.
Together with Bennett Goldberg and Denise Drane, Katya has planned and co-facilitated a series of workshops on mentoring. Serving the education community needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, Katya has partnered with the NU Office of Community Education Partnerships (OCEP) to coordinate development of remote art+science education materials for the local middle and high schools and contribute to organizing a remote summer research internship for the local high school students.
Katya holds an M.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a post-baccalaureate certificate in Studio Art from Brandeis University. Prior to Northwestern, Katya has worked in the fields of biomedical research and development, technical writing, visual consulting for patent litigation, and developing STEAM curriculum for early elementary education.