Dr. Kimberly Browning is the founder of Evaluation Strategies. She is the President and the Lead Evaluator.
Dr. Lena Malofeeva is the Vice President and Senior Director of Research.
Drs. Browning and Malofeeva have a combined over 45 years of expereince in program evaluation, research, grant writing, and survey methodologies. Unlike many other evaluation companies, we bring specific expertise in evaluating components of social service and education initiatives, including home visitation, hub-based initiatives, collaboration, partnership, system-level, and strategy evaluations.
Dr. Kimberly Browning Ph.D., President of Evaluation Strategies earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Early Childhood Education and Child Development as well as a Master’s degree in Human Development from the Erikson Institute in Chicago, IL. Her experiences include Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan-Flint and adjunct faculty at Eastern Michigan University where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Early Childhood Education. She has over 35 years of early childhood experience with local, state, and federally funded projects. Currently, she is the lead evaluator for the Matrix Early Head Start - Child Care Partnership, Brilliant Detroit, and Mercy Education of Detroit. She was one of the lead developers for the Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Knowledge and Competencies and the Arizona Career Lattice (2014-2015). In 2015, she led the writing of the MD Knowledge and Competency Framework for Child and Youth Care Professionals for the State of Maryland. Currently she lead the development of a self-assessment to accompany the MD Framework. She has been a Head Start trainer, evaluator, and with Evaluation Strategies a grant writer for multiple agencies.
Other research experience includes consultation, implementation support, curriculum development, as well as co-Principal Investigator of three federally funded early childhood Social Innovation Strategy initiatives including evaluation of Born to Succeed with Matrix Human Services, evaluation of the Detroit Parent Network reading program; and Evaluation of the Vanguard Community Services Early Learning Communities, Detroit MI. Dr. Browning worked on the community assessment report for the Maricopa County Human Services Department (2 contracts). She also worked with Pinal Gila Community Child Services on their Head Start Community Assessment.
While at HighScope she was the Principal Investigator for the Michigan Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) regression discontinuity design study which assessed outcomes for 700 children in the Lansing, MI public schools. She was the Principal Evaluator and Consultant to the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness program. Responsibilities included the tri-annual evaluation that included both primary and secondary data analyses.
Other research experience includes consultation, implementation support, curriculum development, as well as co-Principal Investigator of three federally funded early childhood Social Innovation Strategy initiatives including evaluation of Born to Succeed with Matrix Human Services, evaluation of the Detroit Parent Network reading program; and Evaluation of the Vanguard Community Services Early Learning Communities, Detroit MI. Dr. Browning worked on the community assessment report for the Maricopa County Human Services Department (2 contracts). She also worked with Pinal Gila Community Child Services on their Head Start Community Assessment.
While at HighScope she was the Principal Investigator for the Michigan Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) regression discontinuity design study which assessed outcomes for 700 children in the Lansing, MI public schools. She was the Principal Evaluator and Consultant to the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness program. Responsibilities included the tri-annual evaluation that included both primary and secondary data analyses.
Dr. Elena Malofeeva, Ph.D., Vice President and Senior Director of Research earned dual Ph.D.’s from the University of Notre Dame in Developmental and Counseling Psychology. She has an extensive background in program evaluation, design and statistics, evaluation of systems, partnerships, alliances, management of complex data systems and estimating complex models. She is the Vice President of Membership and Communications for the Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children. Dr. Malofeeva is a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and American Evaluation Association, and a former member of the Manzanita School Council in Catalina Foothills School District. She is a licensed psychologist in the state of Arizona.
She has worked with the local, state, and federal agencies conducting program and strategy evaluations for the past 25 years. She was one of the lead developers for the Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Knowledge and Competencies and the Arizona Career Lattice (2014-2015) together with other stakeholders and FTF staff. Dr. Malofeeva has worked with Arts Integration Solutions, United Way for Southeastern Michigan and United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona on projects related to home visitation, professional development, and early care service providers. In 2012-2014 she led the Evaluation Strategies’ team to complete the needs assessment report for the Maricopa County Human Services Department. Dr. Malofeeva worked with Pinal Gila Community Child Services on their Needs Assessment. Dr. Malofeeva worked with Application Link (the same company that supports Genesis Universe, Genesis Earth, and Genesis Stars) and COPA on database management and construction. Dr. Malofeeva conducted trainings on assessment instrumentation with multiple Head Start staff.
She worked and trained Head Start teachers and staff in developmentally appropriate strategies in 1997-1998. She has conducted research studies in Head Start from 1996 to 2003.She worked with the Arizona Department of Economic Security on the Fostering Reading Longitudinal Study (Maricopa County) where foster children are placed into homes through an innovative approach to finding permanency homes (Department of Health and Human Services funding). She was a Team Lead for the evaluation of the First Steps Evaluation, evaluation of the Brain Boxes™ curriculum in home visitation (Maricopa and Pinal Counties), and teen pregnancy prevention study funded by the Department of Health and Human Services. She was the Director of Evaluation for the First Things First External Evaluation in AZ where she worked on population level estimates, system evaluation, and developing the benchmarks, indicators that aligned with system-level and program outcomes including those in Maricopa County. In 2008-2010, she was a lead team member for two cost-benefit analyses conducted in collaboration with Dr. James Heckman the Nobel Prize winning economist with the University of Chicago.
She has worked with the local, state, and federal agencies conducting program and strategy evaluations for the past 25 years. She was one of the lead developers for the Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Knowledge and Competencies and the Arizona Career Lattice (2014-2015) together with other stakeholders and FTF staff. Dr. Malofeeva has worked with Arts Integration Solutions, United Way for Southeastern Michigan and United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona on projects related to home visitation, professional development, and early care service providers. In 2012-2014 she led the Evaluation Strategies’ team to complete the needs assessment report for the Maricopa County Human Services Department. Dr. Malofeeva worked with Pinal Gila Community Child Services on their Needs Assessment. Dr. Malofeeva worked with Application Link (the same company that supports Genesis Universe, Genesis Earth, and Genesis Stars) and COPA on database management and construction. Dr. Malofeeva conducted trainings on assessment instrumentation with multiple Head Start staff.
She worked and trained Head Start teachers and staff in developmentally appropriate strategies in 1997-1998. She has conducted research studies in Head Start from 1996 to 2003.She worked with the Arizona Department of Economic Security on the Fostering Reading Longitudinal Study (Maricopa County) where foster children are placed into homes through an innovative approach to finding permanency homes (Department of Health and Human Services funding). She was a Team Lead for the evaluation of the First Steps Evaluation, evaluation of the Brain Boxes™ curriculum in home visitation (Maricopa and Pinal Counties), and teen pregnancy prevention study funded by the Department of Health and Human Services. She was the Director of Evaluation for the First Things First External Evaluation in AZ where she worked on population level estimates, system evaluation, and developing the benchmarks, indicators that aligned with system-level and program outcomes including those in Maricopa County. In 2008-2010, she was a lead team member for two cost-benefit analyses conducted in collaboration with Dr. James Heckman the Nobel Prize winning economist with the University of Chicago.
Patricia Browning, MA, is a Technical Writer with Evaluation Strategies. She is responsible for final report preparation and editing. Ms. Browning earned her BS from Eastern Michigan University in Special Education, Physically and Otherwise Health Impaired and MA from the University of North Texas in English with a minor in Technical Writing. She has been a part of the team working on the Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Knowledge and Competencies, Maricopa County Human Services Department Needs Assessment, and other projects in the state of Arizona. She has worked as an elementary school special education teacher, children’s advocate, program director and as a technical writer and editor. Ms. Browning has extensive experience in both teaching and writing. Her teaching experience ranges from special education, elementary education to university-level courses. Her writing experiences include training and software manual development, grant proposal and nonfiction writing. Her book, Hospital Time! guides children, as well as their caregivers, through the hospitalization experience; Browning co-authored a proposal and won a grant to distribute Hospital Time! to elementary schools and libraries in southeastern Michigan.
Andrew Warnke, MS, Research Associate and Data Analysis, with ES contributes to ongoing national-level evaluation of an adulthood preparation and teen pregnancy prevention curriculum in middle schoolers in Detroit. He also works on projects involving street outreach to homeless and runaway youth as well as a maternity group home in Detroit. Formerly, Andrew participated in evaluations of Brilliant Detroit, Matrix Human Services, the Arizona Nutrition Network, and the Alternatives For Girl's Girls With Ambition program. Mr. Warnke will be responsible for routine communication between ES and the Department, quantitative data collection, data preparation, data analysis, and related writing of survey instruments, as well as preparation of reports and dissemination materials. Prior to working with ES, Mr. Warnke worked on various research and evaluation projects focusing on emotion regulation, sleep, substance use and relationship violence with Oakland University and the Violence and Abuse Research Consortium. He has extensive experience with program evaluations at the private, local, state, and federal levels. He specializes in quantitative methods and data analysis. Andrew earned his Master of Psychological Science (MS) from Oakland University, where he specialized in health behavior.
Hanna Rogers Margolis, MSW, MBE, Research Associate and Qualitative Data Analysis, with ES contributes to the ongoing evaluation of a college preparedness program for middle and high schoolers in Detroit, as well as a State-level evaluation of a parent leadership program. Rogers has experience with development and evaluation of curricula centered around adolescent development and social-emotional learning, and future-preparedness. Formerly, Hanna participated in the evaluations of Brilliant Detroit, and the Alternatives for Girls’ Girls With Ambition program. Ms. Margolis will be responsible for routine communication between ES and TFA, qualitative data collection, analyses, and related writing of interview instruments, as well as preparation of dissemination materials. Prior to ES, Ms. Margolis worked on various community-based research and projects focusing on adolescent development, family engagement and intergenerational health with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Nurse-Family Partnership of Philadelphia, and Camden Coalition. She has extensive experience in qualitative methods, program development and evaluation, and group facilitation. Hanna earned her Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice and Master of Bioethics (MBE) from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.