TExas Evaluation Network

Texas Evaluation Network Board of Directors

Board of Directors are elected annually and open to evaluators, researchers, and anyone interested in evaluation. Board members are those who are willing to commit time and energy to build awareness about TEN and who share our passion for sharing resources, enhancing evaluation knowledge and skills through professional development opportunities, and increasing the visibility of quality evaluation among potential users.

Executive Committee

Yueyue Fan, PhD 

President

​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.  

Kelly Grace, PhD (She/Her) 

Vice President and President Elect

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.

 Christina Tuell, EdD, CHES

Corresponding Secretary

With her combined public health, community and academic experience, Dr. Christina Tuell brings a wide range of expertise to her leadership role as Program Evaluator for the Waco-McLennan County Public Health District. She aims to create a strong bridge between WMCPHD and the community to strengthen partnerships through outreach, evaluation, and data sharing. Relationships such as this educate clinicians and community members resulting in better health for all. Research interest include health literacy, digital health promotion, and health education.

 David Osman, PhD

Recording Secretary 

Dr. David Osman is a Director of Research and Evaluation at Gibson Consulting Group. Prior to Gibson, Dr. Osman was a classroom teacher and later Director of Research and Evaluation at Round Rock Independent School District (TX), where he worked side-by-side with district and school leaders to design and conduct program evaluations and applied educational research. Dr. Osman has conducted evaluation studies for agencies such as Fulton County Schools (GA), Coppell Independent School District (TX), Kansas City Public Schools (MO), Rochester City School District (NY), and the Regional Education Laboratory Southwest (RELSW). He earned his PhD in Educational Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Osman is an evaluator because believes that research and evaluation can drive meaningful positive change in school districts and improve students' lives. Dr. Osman is a native Austinite, and enjoys following Austin FC and traveling with his family.

 Alberto Espinoza, MPA 

Parliamentarian

Alberto is currently the Director of Grants & Evaluation at It's Time Texas. He enjoys building evaluation capacity across program staff, particularly around data analysis and visualization. He currently resides in McAllen, Texas with his wife, Blanca. They both enjoy brewing coffee, cooking, and traveling.

 Rhonda Williams, PhD

Treasurer

A native Floridian born in Tallahassee and raised in Miami, Rhonda has become a proud Texan. Rhonda serves as the Director of Impact & Evaluation for the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas in Dallas. She obtained her BS and MS in mathematics and is a former mathematics high school teacher. Having earned a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in Curriculum and Instruction with a minor in Research Evaluation and Methodology, she honed her research and evaluation skills while serving as a Graduate School Fellow at the George W. Bush Institute.

Rhonda currently serves as the Treasurer for the Texas Evaluation Network. She is also very active in the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Currently, she serves as the Co-chair for the Awards Working Group, the AEA 365 Coordinator for the Nonprofit & Foundation TIG, and a member of the Evaluation Task Force. A highlight of her AEA service was being a member of the Evaluation 2021 Presidential Planning Committee. When not working or volunteering, Rhonda enjoys reading nonfiction books, visiting museums, watching the Simpsons, and playing Cities Skylines.

Board Members

 Jennifer Mineo, DrPH

Past 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.  

 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..

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!

Brita Blesi

Brita is the Director of Learning and Evaluation at Houston Endowment. She thrives on finding and sharing meaningful answers to questions about how programs and strategies can be more effective. Approachable, inclusive, and culturally responsive evaluation is at the heart of her approach. She holds a BA and MA degree in psychology and a graduate certificate in program evaluation. 

Brita lives in Houston, Texas and enjoys running and sailing. 

 Jessica Davison

Past 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.

Jennifer Hughes, PhD

Jennifer Hughes is Managing Director of the Office of Planning and Assessment (OPA) at Texas Tech University. She earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Research from Texas Tech University in 2015, a Master of Science in Communication from Illinois State University in 1996, and a Bachelor of Science in Speech from Northwestern University in 1995. Jennifer's dissertation explored faculty compliance in academic assessment practices, specifically studying the ways in which assessment professionals collaborated with faculty members to achieve compliance. Jennifer's philosophy for working alongside faculty is informed by her dissertation research, and she takes a collaborative and supportive approach to accreditation compliance. Currently, Dr. Hughes is working on preparing for Texas Tech's 2025 Reaffirmation of Accreditation.

Susan Wolfe, PhD     

Susan Wolfe is CEO and a Community Consultant with Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC. She has over 39 years of experience as an evaluator and has worked in various settings that include higher education institutions, large public medical centers, the Federal government, and nonprofit organizations. She has a Master of Arts degree in Ecological (Community) Psychology from Michigan State University and a PhD in Human Development from the University of Texas at Dallas. She lives in Grand Prairie, Texas with her husband and her two chihuahuas. In addition to being a community consultant, she is a wife, mother, grandmother, cousin, friend, cook, world traveler, avid tv watcher, crocheter, and Bahá’í.

Jessica Whittington, MPA, CAPM

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Lydia Bean, PhD

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