I grew up in gorgeous Ithaca, NY.  In 2004, I graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Human Development. In 2006, I received my M.Ed. from the Bank Street College of Education in NYC. Early in my career I worked as an educator, both in the classroom with young children and as a community education coordinator. In 2008, I began working as a facilitator of evaluation partnerships at the Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation (CORE). While at CORE, I partnered with a variety of different types of not-for-profit programs including science education programs, programs for military families, and undergraduate faculty professional development programs. These experiences rekindled my early interest in the way people learn and "learn to learn." In 2015, I began working as an independent consultant with a focus on evaluative thinking and the development of learning organizations. Since then, I have become a well-established facilitator and program development consultant who specializes in program modeling as well as facilitating the development of evaluative thinking, group decision making processes, and fostering effective organizational culture. My work as an independent consultant, as well as in partnership with the RYTE institute at Montclair State University and the STEM-PERL Lab at Yale University, has taken me around the world (with support from the Templeton World Charity Foundation and Catholic Relief Services), across the country (with the PACE project, the Greater Good Science Center, Yale’s STEM-PERL lab, the Riverside Church and others) and helped to establish me as a go-to author and workshop facilitator on the topics of program modelling, organizational learning and evaluative thinking. I currently live in Rochester, NY with my husband and three children.