Ramona Tenorio, PhD
(she/her/hers/ella), Co-Founder/Executive Director and Principal Evaluator
Ramona Tenorio is a Jewish Latina (Jewtina) with Mexican/Indigenous and Dutch ancestry. Her background in research and evaluation as a trained anthropologist and geographer led her to start her own consulting firm, Broader Impact, LLC in 2019, and co-launch Tiyuv Initiative in 2021. Ramona is a mentor for the Wisconsin Center for Evaluation Research (WCER) Clinical Program, mentoring graduate students as they engage in applied and practical evaluation field experience. Ramona is a national speaker and educator on cultural humility, community engagement, racial equity, diversity, and inclusion, health equity, and spatial equity. She has taught at all levels of education from K-12, college/university, graduate school, medical school, medical residency programs. As a faculty member of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Ramona played an active role in facilitating community-engaged research and scholarship on campus. She was team leader for the campus National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) Coalition Builders Leadership chapter. NCBI is an international non-profit leadership development network dedicated to the elimination of racism and other forms of oppression. She has an unwavering commitment to the principles and values of anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and has held several leadership positions in these spaces within healthcare, research, nonprofit, and academic settings. Her passion for justice draws inspiration, guidance, and direction from the Jewish ethos of Tikkun Olam. Ramona currently serves as a board member of Jewtina y Co, Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s Community Relations Council (JCRP), and Congregation Sinai, a Reform Congregation in Fox Point, Wisconsin.
Tobin Belzer, PhD
(she/her), Advisory Board
Tobin Belzer is an applied sociologist whose research and program evaluations for Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and secular non-profit organizations and philanthropists have focused on identity and character development, organizational culture, teens and emerging adults, leadership development, education, congregational studies, gender, arts and culture, special needs inclusion, and Jewish/Muslim relations. Tobin is a Contributing Fellow at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture (CRCC) at the University of Southern California and a Research Affiliate at Stanford SPARQ. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University (2014, 2015-2016) and a Research Associate at the CRCC (2004-2014). She has worked with and for numerous organizations and foundations including Jim Joseph Foundation, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, The John Templeton Foundation, California Community Foundation, Koret Foundation, the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University, the Lily Endowment, and the Covenant Foundation. From 2010-2012, Tobin served as the Senior Project Director at Rosov Consulting, LLC, a strategic consultancy that helps foundations, philanthropists and Jewish communal organizations meet their goals, assess progress, and enhance impact. She earned her doctorate in sociology and joint master’s degree in sociology and women’s studies from Brandeis University. As a doctoral candidate, she was awarded the Joshua Venture Fellowship for Young Jewish Social Entrepreneurs. With Rabbi Julie Pelc Adler, she is the co-editor of Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives (SUNY Press, 2003). https://crcc.usc.edu/people/tobin-belzer/
Annalee Good, PhD
(she/her), Advisory Board
Annalee Good is an evaluator and researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), co-director of the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative, and Director of the WCER Clinical Program. She is co-PI on an ongoing study of digital tools in K-12 education, and supports many youth-serving organizations through culturally responsive evaluation in topics such as tutoring, personalized learning, community schools, and ensuring equitable access and outcomes in advanced learning opportunities. She has published and presented numerous papers on topics including public contracting for digital instructional tools, the nature of the instructional landscape in out-of-school time tutoring, the role of tutoring in school reform, and the role of K-12 teachers in the creation of public policy. Annalee also is the co-lead of the Wisconsin chapter of Scholars Strategy Network. She was an 8th grade social studies teacher before earning her master’s and doctoral degrees in Educational Policy Studies from UW-Madison.
Gage Gorsky, PhD
(they/them), Evaluator/Instructor
Gage Gorsky is a queer mixed Mexican Jewish multimodal research advisor, data analyst, and program evaluator who uses a dynamic approach to explore intersections of identity and the phenomenon of social categorization, with a focus on the tension between marginality and belonging. They have a doctorate in Educational Measurement and Statistics from the University of Washington, where their research inquiry bridged social science themes to better understand the intersections of identity and math achievement. In 2020, they helped lead “Beyond the Count,” the largest ever study of Jews of Color, released August 2021. They serve as an advisor for OneTable, the Collaborative for Applied Studies in Jewish Education (CASJE), Edot Midwest, as well as a number of independent research projects. In addition to ongoing work with SVARA and the Jim Joseph Foundation, they are currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Graduate School of Education, concentration in Jewish Studies, at Stanford University.
Daniel Marlin, MPA
(he/him), Evaluator
Daniel Marlin, MPA, is an associate researcher at the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC), housed within the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dan performs qualitative and quantitative work on several evaluations involving the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, school districts, and other K-12 associations and partners. His projects include evaluations of advanced learning initiatives, educator professional development and evaluation, and college and career readiness. Dan holds a master’s degree in public affairs from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. Dan has provided leadership on several evaluation initiatives with an equity lens using culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) approach, including: serving the UnderRepresented by Grouping Equitably (SURGE), as lead evaluator for project funded through the U.S. Department of Education’s Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program that provides professional development to elementary school teachers to implement a Response to Intervention (RtI) framework using cluster grouping and differentiated instruction; scaling-up Expanding Excellence for Underrepresented Students (SEE US!), as lead evaluator for project funded through the U.S. Department of Education’s Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program that provides professional development to elementary school teachers to identify advanced learners from historically underrepresented populations and develop inquiry-based lessons using a culturally responsive lens; Wisconsin Statewide System of Support (SSOS)– member of a team evaluating the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s (DPI) supports for districts and schools identified under IDEA and ESSA; evaluation of LEAP Breakthrough Schools Chicago–evaluated implementation of personalized learning in six Chicago Public Schools.
Shahanna McKinney-Baldon, MEd
(she/her), Co-Founder and Principal Evaluator
Shahanna McKinney-Baldon is a longtime national thought leader on racial and ethnic diversity in the Jewish community. A former classroom teacher and education administrator , Shahanna has held leadership roles in Jewish education settings and in public school districts and community organizations, including serving in the roles of Reform synagogue Education Director and Jewish Federation high school program administrator; and as Advanced Academic Programs director, Chief Diversity Officer, and Director of Family and Community Engagement for large public-school districts. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Social Justice Education Program and the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Education, she led applied research work in the role of and Director of Professional Learning for Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN)–a consortium of 30 US public school districts working to end the effects of racism on their schools. Shahanna is the former Special Assistant for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Center for Evaluation Research (WCER), and she currently serves there as an evaluator as well as in the role of WCER Clinical Program Co-Director. Shahanna sits on the Board of Governors for Reconstructing Judaism, and co-chairs the Tikkun Olam Commission for the Reconstructionist Movement, one of the major streams of Judaism in North America. She comes from a large Midwest US African American and Ashkenazi family with Seminole, Cherokee, Blackfoot, and Sephardi heritages.
Elizabeth Webster, PhD, MSPP MBA
(she/her), Evaluator
Dr. Elizabeth Webster is a former Congressional candidate and Ga State House, Candidate. Prior to running for elected office, Dr. Webster worked in global public health as a subject matter expert in capacity building, system strengthening, monitoring and evaluation, workforce development and knowledge transfer. She served on the OMB Evaluation and Performance committee. Additionally, Dr. Webster provided technical assistance, instructional design, and training to build public health leadership and management laboratory capacity to respond to especially dangerous pathogens in Georgia, Armenia, Uganda, and Kazakhstan. Prior to Dr. Webster’s work in global health, she directed vaccination outreach efforts for a major Georgia health system and served as Executive Director for a public health non-profit. She has extensive leadership experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating chronic disease programs, public health education, screening programs, and operations including budget, finance, and personnel management. She also has extensive experience in stakeholder development and coalition building. Dr. Webster has a BA in Asian Studies, an MBA, an MSPP in Public Policy, and a Ph.D. in Public Health and Epidemiology in addition to industry certifications of MCHES, CPH, LQMS and COTR. Dr. Webster is originally from Queens, New York City, but calls Georgia her adopted home.
