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Evelyn Yang Bio

Evelyn Yang is the Senior Manager for Evaluation and Research at CADCA’s National Coalition Institute, where she is responsible for advancing coalition research to improve coalition effectiveness and improving coalition evaluation to better assess and capture coalition outcomes.

In addition, Evelyn is responsible for translating research findings and new evaluation methodologies and performance measures into materials that the field can effectively use. She works with the researcher/evaluator community to advance research, evaluation techniques and performance measures.

Prior to joining CADCA, Evelyn worked on several projects examining coalition effectiveness and local systems change in the human service delivery arena.She has been involved in evaluation and research projects of comprehensive community change-oriented initiatives, with interest and experience in organizational development, multi-sector collaboration and qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Evelyn also has a background in child and family service delivery. She holds a Bachelors degree in Psychology from The College of William and Mary and a Master's degree in Clinical/Community Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Evelyn is a doctoral candidate in Michigan State University’s Ecological-Community Psychology Program.