Audrey Cooper is the Director of the Evaluation Lab. Audrey is a Registered Nurse with a Master's in Public Health from UNM concentrating in Systems, Services, and Policy. She has over a decade of non-profit health care experience in clinical quality, evaluation, heath policy, and health center management. Audrey's evaluation interests center on cultivating joy in the professional setting, identifying what really matters, using evaluation to create and inform policy, and practicing justice in all settings. 

Ranjana has a doctorate in sociology. She has experience in PreK-12 education research and evaluation. Her interests include education policy, and equity and inclusion in education. She has worked on evaluation of social programs supported by federal, state, city, or private funding. Ranjana worked as a researcher/evaluator at Albuquerque Public Schools and as Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico Center for Education Policy Research, before she retired in May 2018. Post retirement, Ranjana has established a consultancy called Mainspring Evaluation, LLC, to work mainly with non-profits. 

Emily is an Evaluator with Apex Evaluation, a technology and consulting firm that specializes in collecting credible evidence to build, share, test, and evolve mental models. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology (Sociocultural concentration) from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP); a Master’s in Anthropology (Ethnology concentration); and Master’s in Public Health (Community Health Intervention concentration), both from the University of New Mexico.

In her evaluation practices, Emily is mainly interested in understanding if anyone is better off because of their involvement in the program or organization. She uses Systems Learning to look toward the larger societal, political, and economic structures that affect our communities; and data to tell the stories of what our project partners are doing and how that impacts our communities. Centering the voices and perspectives of different stakeholders is a key part of Emily’s evaluation practice, as people just want to feel heard and listened to.

Outside of work, Emily enjoys reading from (and adding to) the pile of books next to her desk, or daydreaming about the next trip she is going to take.

Emma Tomingas-Hatch is the Unit Administrator for the Evaluation Lab, the Master of Public Policy, and the Race & Social Justice Certificate program. She has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico and an M.A. in Folklore from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.