Eva collaborates with nonprofits, government agencies and foundations to help them through program design, organizational development, evaluation, and strategic planning. She helps organizations build their evaluation capacity and incorporate small learning approaches into their organizational culture. Eva approaches collaborations with excitement, humility, empathy, and authenticity. She encourages and welcomes diverse voices to the table to design projects for those at the margins and ensure that their voices are incorporated. She is most inspired by the opportunity to work with organizations focused on racial equity and advancing social justice so that under-resourced communities can heal and thrive. She relies on her applied research, culturally-responsive evaluation, and her organizing roots to bring creative, solutions-oriented strategies to address the needs of communities.
Eva also has a background in youth development and a decade of experience in developing organizational and evaluation strategies in service of impacting the social determinants of health to create just and equitable communities. Prior to joining Engage R+D, Eva was Director of Impact and Continuous Improvement for Promesa Boyle Heights, a grassroots and liberation-focused collaborative, where she worked closely with community members and partners to address education, health, and environmental inequities. She is a skilled bilingual researcher with strong knowledge in community-based participatory action research and evaluation methodology. Eva is a Native Spanish speaker.
In addition to her research and evaluation background, Eva brings her expertise to facilitate communities of practice and coalitions and finds joy in seeing the power of collective thinking and knowledge sharing. She loves to uplift the local knowledge of groups and help them get unstuck to solve complex societal issues. She was a 2023 cohort graduate from the Workforce Leadership Network with Coro Southern California and the Emergent Learning 2023 Cohort.
Education
Master of International Development, American University
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, University of California, San Diego
