Texas Evaluation Network

Past Presidents of the Board of Directors

Kelly Grace, PhD (She/Her)

President 2025-2026
Vice President 2024-2025
Corresponding Secretary 2022-2024

Kelly is the education assessment specialist at the Health Education Center at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She has a PhD in Comparative and International Education from Lehigh University specializing in gender and social inclusion. She is passionate about methodology and capacity building in evaluation, particularly related to transformative mixed methods approaches. She has lived in Germany, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, China, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. In her free time, she practices and teaches yoga and studies Russian and Khmer.

Yueyue Fan, PhD

President 2024 - 2025

Yueyue Fan, Ph.D., serves as the program evaluation specialist at Irving Independent School District in Irving, Texas. She has more than ten years of experience in applied research and program evaluation in K-12 schools and higher education. Yueyue has a diverse professional background conducting external and internal program evaluation using quantitative, qualitative, as well as mixed-methods designs. In her current role, she manages district-wide program evaluation and research projects, including but not limited to federal and state-mandated evaluations for special student population programs, school climate, parent engagement, student social-emotional well-being, and learning resources evaluations. Before joining Irving, Yueyue’s work focused on conducting formative and summative evaluations to measure the impact and effectiveness of large-scale federal research grants in biomedical and environmental research.

Yueyue holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Business Administration from Austin College and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Delaware. As a lifelong learner, she is always looking for opportunities to learn and grow.

Jennifer Mineo, DrPH

President 2023 to 2024

Jennifer Mineo is the Senior Research and Evaluation Officer at the Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF). She provides leadership, thought partnership and implementation support of research and evaluation at the foundation. Jennifer’s background is in program evaluation, including quantitative and qualitative approaches. Over the last 20 years, she has worked in public health with local, state and non-profit organizations to develop, implement, and evaluate community health programs. Jennifer's approach to all evaluation work is rooted in social justice. She holds a Doctorate in Public Health and a Master's degree in Social Work.

Jessica Davison

President 2022 to 2023

Jessica Davison is Senior Director of Learning, Analytics and Compliance at United Way of Greater Houston (UWGH). She has extensive experience working with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate program effectiveness and implement continuous quality improvement (CQI). Jessica is passionate about the equitable use of data and democratizing data for all audiences. She is a member of the Data Visualization Society and American Evaluation Association. She lives in Houston, Texas where she enjoys spending time with her family. She is constantly searching for gumbo that reminds her of growing up in southwest Louisiana.

Past Board Members

Kenya Johnson, PhD, MSW

Dr. Kenya Johnson is an assistant professor with the University of Houston-Downtown. She is also co-owner of the consulting firm, Full Circle Strategies, LLC. Her work primarily involves supporting organizational leaders in their race equity work. She loves creating opportunities that allow us to re-imagine evaluation so that it centers equity and justice. Dr. Johnson lives in Houston in the Spring area. She is the proud mom of one son (college graduate) and one daughter (third-year college student). She loves to bake and host fun gatherings at her home!

Institute Planning Co-Chair 2024-2025

Mohit Prodhan

Student Representative

Mohit Prodhan is a first-generation college student and a doctoral student at the School of Social Work at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU) (The University of Texas System). He has several years of teaching and non-profit organization experience in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. These research interests focus on humanity, religion, spirituality, education, and community development. These experiences and reasons motivate him to work with humanity in social work practice.

He has worked on several funded grants, reviewed a book, and published several articles and research reports in peer-reviewed journals. Additionally, he presented his research at several national and international conferences. Recently, he completed a course on Global Standards of Social Work Education and Training (GSSWET) offered by the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In spring 2024, the College of Liberal and Applied Arts, SFASU, awarded him the Outstanding Doctoral Students in Social Work Award and Lumberjack Achievement Award.

Additionally, he is a member of the CSWE and the NASW, the Steering Committee of the 21/7 Association in Nacogdoches, Texas, and the Interim President of the Doctoral Student Organization of Social Workers (DSOSW) at the School of Social Work at SFASU..