"I am particularly passionate about helping organizations maximize their impact through data driven insight and participatory learning processes. This north star has guided my journey through the past 17 years where I've successfully helped organizations create and utilize data infrastructure and insights to drive social change.
My work is guided by shared ownership, community empowerment, and leveraging local expertise."
Jacqueline Chan, Founder and Principal Consultant
Jacqueline has dedicated her career to helping nonprofit and public agencies use data to drive equitable impact and inclusive community development. She has 17+ years of experience in applied research and evaluation spanning the fields of public health, education, housing, sustainable development, and workforce development. She specializes in utilization focused, participatory, and developmental evaluation, and is skilled in applied research and study design to incorporate rigorous methods into evaluation. As an evaluation methodologist with epidemiological training, she designs evaluation that hold up under scrutiny: defensible sampling, appropriate study design, and analysis that matches the question being asked.
She currently serves as Vice President of Data and Evaluation at United Way Bay Area, where she oversees organizational efforts to measure impact and use data insights to drive decision making. Previously, she served as a consultant to nonprofit and government agencies to design, establish, and learn from program data insights.
She holds an MPH in Global Health and Epidemiology from Emory University, and a BS in Public Health Microbiology.
Jacqueline is a faculty at California State University, East Bay within the Nonprofit Management Certificate Program, teaching nonprofit leaders how to use data insights to advance equity.