Staff

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Audrey Cooper

Director of the UNM Evaluation Lab

Email: 
aleanos@unm.edu

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. 

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Ranjana Damle

Summer Institute Facilitator and Evaluator

Email: 
damle@unm.edu

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. 

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Kevin Estes

Team Lead

Email: 
kmestes@salud.unm.edu
Dr. Estes is an Research Assistant Professor at the UNM Prevention Research Center. He is an applied microeconomist interested in the intersection of labor, education, and health. His research has included analyses of public policies from early childhood to post-secondary education. He completed his bachelors of business administration in finance at New Mexico State University and his doctoral studies in economics at the University of New Mexico.
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Charla Orozco

Summer Institute Facilitator

Email: 
cehenley@unm.edu
Charla Orozco is currently employed as the Director of the Office of Institutional Analytics at the University of New Mexico. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Roanoke College in Spanish Literature and Business Administration (2014). She is also a graduate of UNM with Masters degrees in Latin American Studies (2016) and Cybersecurity & Business Analytics (2022). Charla began working with the Evaluation Lab as a graduate student and fellow in 2015 and has continued on in various capacities, learning beside many great students, faculty, and non-profit organizations.
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Sabrina Sanchez

Associate Director, Evaluation Lab

Email: 
sabrisan@unm.edu
Sabrina Sanchez is experienced in program management, community-centered research, human rights education, and multi-stakeholder coordination and management across nonprofit, public health, academic, and international development sectors. In previous roles, she has led legal empowerment and justice-intervention programs, anti-human and sex trafficking advocacy, positive youth development initiatives, domestic and global qualitative research, environmental grassroots campaign management, and strategic organizational consulting. She holds a Master’s in International and Multicultural Human Rights Education from the University of San Francisco and a BA in Sociology with a minor in Journalism from San Francisco State University.