Maddy started off as an intern with Viable Insights and has grown into her current position as an Associate Consultant. She has received her Master’s in Applied Psychology degree with concentrations in Evaluation Research and Industrial/Organizational psychology at the University of Wisconsin – Stout. She loves qualitative analysis, report writing, and working with nonprofit organizations to help them achieve their goals and answer key questions to drive improvement. Maddy believes that evaluation work is powerful and a great way to create positive change at an organization or within a community.

External Communications Chair

Eileen Eisen-Cohen, PhD, MSW

Faculty, Arizona State University School of Public Affairs

Eileen Eisen-Cohen is Communications Co-Chair for 2022-2023. She is a faculty for the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University where she teaches courses in public management, politics, leadership, and program evaluation. She has a background in public health and led the Maricopa County Department of Public Health to earn their Public Health Accreditation. She is a program evaluator and has led work teams, community partners, and stakeholders in local and statewide initiatives.

Membership Recruitment Chair

Devina Wadhera, PhD

Program Manager - Evaluator, Arizona Department of Health Services

Devina Wadhera is the Membership Recruitment Chair.  She has a PhD in psychology from Arizona State University and is very passionate about research, data analytics and insights.  Her primary research interests are in improving dietary behaviors in children and adults. She is currently the principal program evaluator for the WIC program at Arizona Department of Health Services.

Professional Development Chair 

Sarah Yeo

Evaluator, University of Arizona

Sarah Yeo is Professional Development Chair for 2022-2023. She has spent the last decade working in international development as an evaluator. Her professional interests include health equity, global health, and monitoring and evaluation.

Tucson Regional Co-Chairs

Kendra Thompson-Dyck, PhD

Manager of Assessment & Research, University of Arizona

Kendra Thompson-Dyck serves as AZENet Tucson Region Co-Chair.  As Manager of Assessment & Research at the University of Arizona, she conducts institution-wide data collection and assessment to improve student experiences and outcomes.  Kendra enjoys translating quantitative, qualitative, and spatial analysis into useful data-insights. She holds degrees in Sociology from the University of Arizona (MA, PhD) and a BA in Communication from Seattle Pacific University. 

Michel Lahti

Senior Evaluation Associate, LeCroy & Milligan Associates

Michel Lahti is a Senior Evaluation Associate at LeCroy & Milligan Associates and his current work focuses on evaluating programs in human services, education and adult protective services.

Regional Chairs for Phoenix

(Norman) Paul Gibbs, PhD

Program Evaluator, Mesa Public Schools

Paul Gibbs is a program evaluator for Mesa Unified School District and has served in K-12 and higher education institutions for two decades, both in the U.S. and internationally. He is a mixed methods researcher with special interests in educational assessment and accountability, comparative and international education, and democratic and civic engagement in learning communities. An AZENet member since 2020, Paul values the way that AZENet continuously expands the evaluation toolbox by building bridges across methodologies, personal interests, and professional backgrounds.

Marcia Nation, PhD

Principal and Owner, Nation Evaluation Consulting, LLC

I deliver evaluation services to organizations engaged in initiatives toward societal and sustainability outcomes, including applied research, social and environmental programs, and informal education, using qualitative and quantitative methods appropriate for the evaluation context and purpose.

I also guide organizations in the development of strategic plans and logic models and facilitate the identification and measurement of collective impacts for collaborations, networks, and coalitions. 

Regional Chairs for Flagstaff and Yuma (Accepting nominations)