Board of Directors 2014-2015

Dr. Brian Yoder is Director of Assessment, Evaluation, and Institutional Research at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He oversees annual data collection for ASEE’s benchmark surveys of engineering schools, and leads research and evaluation of federally funded and industry funded projects in areas related to engineering education and STEM education. He served as Chair of AEA’s Government Evaluation Topical Interest Group. He spearheaded the Evaluators Visit Capitol Hill initiative, a collaboration between AEA’s Evaluation Policy Task Force (EPTF) and Washington Evaluators which organized and provided guidance to AEA members to visit the office of their congress person during the AEA conference in Washington, D.C. in 2013. Brian has been active in the Washington Evaluators for over five years and played a central role in its recent growth as a local affiliate of the American Evaluation Association. Eric Abdullateef is a monitoring and evaluation specialist with Macfadden. He is on contract to the Office of American Schools and Hospitals Abroad within USAID’s Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Bureau. Mr. Abdullateef enables organizational learning, value for money, and results based management. He investigates program performance issues and assesses ASHA’s contribution to development, public diplomacy and U.S. national security priorities. He holds an MBA from the University of California Berkeley. He is past president of Washington Evaluators, the DC Metro affiliate of the American Evaluation Association. Dr. Valerie Caracelli, Senior Analyst in the Center for Evaluation Methods and Issues, in GAO’s Applied Research and Methods Team, conducts studies of federal evaluation practices and consults with other GAO Teams on evaluation design issues and examining the quality of evaluation studies. She recently served on the Board of the American Evaluation Association and is currently on the Board of Washington Evaluators. Robin Kelley has worked for over 15 years in a combination of community and academics endeavors. In academia, she has taught women’s health and human rights at Georgetown University and women’s health at George Washington University and at the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars. In the community, she has served as a program and evaluation consultant, program developer, program director and evaluator for community based mentoring and health organizations. The health organizations she has focused on vulnerable populations such as women, girls and those at high risk for HIV. She currently works with other organizations to help them build their capacity for evaluation services. She develops evaluation plans for over million dollar proposals and supervise staff and graduate students. She has the honor of serving my professional organization as the Chair of the Membership Committee.