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FERA is a small, virtual corporation that has provided evaluation, strategic planning, and training for over 30 years. Staffing levels are flexible depending on the size and nature of the project. Our staff communicate electronically from their home offices, meet face-to-face in project teams and travel to meet clients in their own settings.


 

Karin E. Tice is FERA's current President and Senior Partner. She has conducted evaluations with nonprofits to strengthen their organizations and programs for over 20 years. An applied social anthropologist, Tice received her Ph.D. in 1989 from Columbia University.  She has evaluated a wide range of youth and community development initiatives including the Michigan Community Foundations’ Youth Project (1991 – 2006).  Over the past decade her evaluation research, focused on engaging youth in grantmaking and on building community foundation capacity, has been published and disseminated locally, nationally and internationally (see www.youthgrantmakers.org and www.GrowingCF.org to be live soon).
ktice[at]feraonline[dot]com

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John A. Seeley is a co-founder and Consulting Partner of FERA.  John has a Ph.D. in Higher Education, a Masters in Comparative Government and a degree in Political Science.  He has over 35 years of experience in conducting evaluations and his work has been published in the United States and internationally.  John is one of six national trainers selected by United Way of America to conduct training on outcomes measurement and recently he undertook the evaluation for the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future. John was formerly the President of the Michigan Association for Evaluation.
jaseeley[at]feraonline[dot]com 

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Elizabeth Armstrong, Research Assistant, is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan School of Social Work, having received her MSW and a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies in December 2007. Elizabeth's MSW work focused on social policy and evaluation related to community and systems-level services. In the period between receiving her Bachelor's degree from Simon's Rock College of Bard in 2003, where she focused her studies on Psychology and Human Services, Elizabeth worked in a variety of social service settings. Elizabeth's work with FERA draws upon her experience in direct service settings as well as her interests in empowerment methodologies, qualitative research, and the relationship between organizational values and program structure.

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Lisa Dugdale, Project Manager, has an MPP and MSW from the University of Michigan, focusing on Nonprofit Management and Organizational Development. Lisa has experience in the research and consulting fields, doing everything from market research to formative evaluation. Most recently, she conducted a formative evaluation for a large University of Michigan department that wanted to improve their team training and development program, as well as conducted program design research for a community center looking to determine which programs best fit the needs of residents and improved the community.

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John Fosselman, Project Associate, has a B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of South Florida where he graduated with honors. John has over 30 years of diversified Information Technology experience and has expertise in designing information systems for management and strategic planning.  John also founded and developed Miracle Island, a web site that provides nourishment for the soul and hope for those affected by traumatic disease or injury.

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Paul Fosselman, IT consultant, has over 18 years of experience in the Field of Information Technology. He has been involved in supporting the IT needs of small businesses in various capacities over the years. Some of the IT support areas include: technical support, training, consulting, desktop publishing, and new media production. Paul strives to bring many of the same core infrastructure technologies that "Big" businesses employ to smaller enterprises.

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Peter Gluck, Senior Associate, recently affiliated with FERA after 20 years as an independent consultant working with public and nonprofit organizations and private foundations in strategic planning, organization assessment, monitoring and outcome evaluation studies and needs assessment.  He recently retired from The University of Michigan-Flint where he taught and conducted applied research in public management and evaluation.  Over the years, Peter has been active in professional associations and made numerous presentations to audiences of academics and practitioners.  In his consulting work, Peter places a high value on making the lessons from the field accessible to and usable by practitioners in the field.

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Zaje A. T. Harrell, Project Associate, earned a B.A. in Psychology from Spelman College in Atlanta GA in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Psychology and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan in 2002.  Zaje has specialized training in gender and mental health, specifically as related to substance abuse.  She worked at the University of Michigan Substance Abuse Research Center as an evaluation team member for Residential Substance Abuse Treatment programs in the Michigan Department of Corrections for two years.  For the past three years she has also worked as a mentor and teacher in an educational intervention program for middle school girls called Using Math Girls Investigate Real Life (UM-GIRL) at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

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Kathryn A. Huss, Vice President, has a B.A. in Business Administration and is responsible for the financial, human resources, contractual and legal operations of FERA. Kathy’s expertise in organizational problem-solving, accounting, financial management and contract/employee negotiations developed while working for nonprofit organizations for over 20 years.  

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Ashley Lanting, Project Associate, has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and a Masters in Teaching of English as a Second Language from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She has conducted formative and outcome evaluations for SERVE, a federally funded regional laboratory, Starr Commonwealth, a not-for profit educational agency for at-risk youth, and school districts in Illinois and Michigan.  Her expertise is teacher professional development, school reform, student performance assessments, and language testing.  Ashley has published her work in American Evaluation Association and American Educational Research Association documents.

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Amy Fox McNulty, Project Associate, obtained a B.A. from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT in 1993 and an M.A. in Applied Anthropology from the University of South Florida in Tampa in 1998. She has conducted formative and outcome evaluations, designed data collection instruments, and entered and analyzed data.  Amy works with a variety of clients including: the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Calhoun County Community Foundation Alliance, The Lenawee Intermediate School District, Michigan Coalition of Essential Schools, and the Washtenaw Intergenerational Supportive Housing.

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Josephine Sirineo, Research Assistant, is a doctoral student in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan.  She received her bachelor's degree in Sociology with an Education minor from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2004, Josephine earned a master's degree in Higher and Postsecondary Education from the University of Michigan.  Working on a variety of projects in FERA she draws upon her experience in institutional research, market research and non-profit management. Her professional interests include evaluation, research methodology, organizational behavior and management.  

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Judith Skiff, Information Specialist, has extensive experience and expertise in word processing, spreadsheets, bookkeeping, and data management in a variety of programs.  Judith has a special interest in applying technology in an office environment to maximize quality and productivity.

 

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Priscilla Spencer, Project Associate, earned her Ed.D. and M.Ed. in Adult and Continuing Education from Columbia University Teachers College, and a B.S. from Michigan State University.  She has over 11 years experience in the development and administration of adult education and training programs, primarily in higher education and health care. She has extensive experience in program evaluation, needs assessment, program design, participant support services, marketing, budget planning and instructional materials development.  Her areas of research and evaluation specialization include the introduction of non-traditional programming in established institutions, distance education, standards of practice, health education, and continuing professional education.  

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