Michelle has over 10 years experience in program development, project management, research, and evaluation. She received her master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado and her doctorate in Community and Prevention Research from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was a pre-doctoral fellow with NIMH’s Prevention and Research Training Program. Examples of Michelle’s recent work include the development of school-based prevention programs and the evaluation of a large community schools initiative. She has extensive experience with both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and regularly combines both approaches when designing evaluations. In her work, Michelle seeks participation of multiple stakeholder groups to design and conduct program evaluations that lead to program improvement and organizational capacity building. She is the author of numerous published articles and chapters and has been a speaker at national and international conferences. Michelle is currently president-elect of the New Mexico Evaluators.

E-mail: michelle@apexeducation.org