Board of Directors
2025 Board of Directors & LeadershipThe Washington Evaluators is managed by a Board of Directors as well as other volunteers. Five voting Board positions are elected (unless filled by appointment due to vacancy). The Presidential cycle is three years, with the elected individual serving first as President-Elect, and then assuming the role of President, and then Past President. The Treasurer and Secretary positions are held for two years. Four other voting Board positions are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Board. The 2025 Board members, as well as other Washington Evaluators leaders and volunteers, are listed below. BOARD MEMBERSMatt St. JohnPresident 
Matt has 20 years of experience in the fields of monitoring, evaluation, learning and program management across the public sector--at the local and federal levels--as well as in the non-profit and international sectors. Currently, he is a Senior Consultant at Guidehouse LLC where he is supporting the US Department of State to improve its monitoring and evaluation practices. Previously, Matt worked in evaluation at the United Nations in Colombia, at the Mayor's Office in New York City, and with NGOs in the Philippines, El Salvador, and Haiti, among other places. He is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer having served in Paraguay from 1995-2000. He holds a Bachelor's degree from Arizona State University and a Master's in Public Administration from the Wagner School at NYU. Elizabeth BotkinTreasurer
Tristi NicholsSecretary 
Independent Evaluator through her consulting business, Manitou, Inc. Her professional career encompasses impactful roles with the United Nations, UNICEF, various nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the United States Government. With a doctorate from Cornell University, Dr. Nichols has successfully designed, managed, and implemented monitoring and evaluation projects across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Caucasus, and the South Pacific. A longstanding member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) since 1994, she served on the AEA Board of Directors from 2010 to 2012 and contributed to AEA’s Slate Committee for three years. Quisha BrownProgram Chair 
Quisha Brown is the Executive Director of Humanistic Home Care, an agency dedicated to helping Medicaid recipients remain at home by providing assistance with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' (MDHHS) Home Help program. This program enables recipients to hire family or friends as caregivers, ensuring personalized care while reducing Medicaid and government costs. An accomplished Independent Social Outcomes Measurement Consultant, Quisha is the author of "Using the Progressive Outcomes Scale Logic Model to Calculate SROI", which introduces an innovative formula to help governments evaluate the social return on investment (SROI) of programs. With over 20 years of leadership in education, housing, workforce development, and mental health, she is celebrated for her creative approaches and commitment to inclusive evaluation practices. As Program Chair, Quisha aims to bring her expertise in evaluation, social outcomes, and fiscal responsibility to Washington Evaluators programming. Her focus is on advancing the evaluation field with tools and strategies that promote accountability and measurable social impact. Nicole GermanoCommunications Chair
COORDINATORSJoanna ProutSocial Media Coordinator Joanna is a Psychologist and Program Evaluator at the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She combines her clinical experience and research background to build systems for communicating data that make school- and community-based mental health supports usable and effective. Joanna's work emphasizes the importance of partnering with service providers and the people intended to benefit from services in defining impact. Evan SeidnerScholarships Coordinator
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Elizabeth Botkin is a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In that capacity, she manages large-scale evaluation projects, oversees performance monitoring efforts, and conducts capacity-building for the Bureau and its partners. Throughout her career, she has worked on evaluation and monitoring projects with Department of State, U.S. Trade and Development Agency, the Peace Corps and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She has experience managing local data collection, training field staff, developing and implementing performance targets for projects, designing data collection instruments and analyzing data to present to key stakeholders and policy makers. She received her Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Maryland, College Park and a B.A. in International Studies from Towson University.
Nicole Germano is a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). In her current role, she manages program evaluations, implements the bureau’s performance monitoring framework, and has helped expand the team’s learning line of effort. An emerging evaluator, Nicole previously worked in digital marketing. She holds bachelors’ degrees in journalism and Spanish as well as a master’s degree i
Evan is a recent graduate from American University with a Masters of Arts in International Relations. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Global Studies with minors in Political Science and East Asian Languages and Cultures. Before pursuing the MA, Evan spent time working in Tokyo, Japan in the grain industry as a Purchasing Analyst. Evan looks forward to entering the Evaluation field while serving as Program Co-Chair and Scholarships Co-Coordinator at WE.
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