External Evaluator, Community Consulting LLC
Dr. Maria Jimenez (she/her/ella) is a Senior Evaluation Manager at Volunteers of America Los Angeles as well as an independent evaluation and research consultant (MJ Consulting & Community Consulting) in the Los Angeles area. She has a decade of research and evaluation experience, with particular expertise in building the capacity of organizations to achieve their goals through the development and evaluation of their programs, policies, and activities. She has strong technical skills in participatory action research and is highly skilled at integrating complex research and data into usable, accessible formats for diverse stakeholders. Dr. Jimenez has experience in mixed methods evaluation, qualitative data collection methods, and case study research. She is a pioneer in the field of Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE), which incorporates constructs of culture and context throughout the evaluation process to ensure the evaluation needs of underrepresented populations are met. Dr. Jimenez holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies, specializing in Program Evaluation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
