Frances E.K Hampton, B.A., B.A. 

President

Frances E.K Hampton is a proud multicultural urban woman in the Ph.D. Applied Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program at Portland State University. Her research focuses on workplace diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice for underrepresented employees. Her leadership style values different ideas and perspectives to accomplish shared goals. Frances enjoys supporting various initiatives that foster empowerment and the fair treatment of others! Her passion for equitable professional practices in evaluation brought her to OPEN! 

"I hope to use my heart and voice to advocate for the fair and fruitful treatment and evaluation of underrepresented groups in workplaces across the U.S."

Chari Smith 

President-Elect  

Chari Smith believes evaluation should be accessible, practical and usable. She founded Evaluation into Action to help nonprofit professionals create realistic and meaningful program evaluation processes. She has taught several workshops helping nonprofit professionals understand the value and use of program evaluation. Her book, Nonprofit Program Evaluation Made Simple: Get Your Data. Show Your Impact. Improve Your Programs., provides step by step instruction on how to do program evaluation.

Chari is a proud member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), Oregon Program Evaluators Network (OPEN) and the International Society of Evaluation Education (ISEE). She is also an adjunct faculty member for the University of Portland’s Pamplin School of Business Nonprofit MBA program. You can learn more at www.evaluationintoaction.com 

Alexis Burnett
Financial Officer

Alexis has over 5 years of evaluation experience in K-12 education in Oregon. Before that, her experience as a substitute teacher in the California Bay Area gave her insight into the importance of teacher onboarding and mentorship as well as the importance of representation of culturally and ethnically diverse educators.

Throughout her time in Oregon, she has gained additional interests in social-emotional learning, culturally responsive evaluation, and data-driven storytelling. Her pandemic hobbies of re-working her own household’s spending and saving habits led her to an interest in the responsibilities of OPEN’s Finance Officer and the community that the council helps to build.

Beryl Neequaye
Communication Officer

Beryl Neequaye has been doing program evaluation for over five years and is currently an Evaluation and Data Specialist at The Research Institute (TRI) in the Center on Evaluation, Technology & Research (CETR). In this role, Beryl uses data visualization tools, database management techniques, and culturally responsive approaches to evaluate programs for continuous quality improvement.

She enjoys working with faculty, staff, clients, and other stakeholders in the development of evaluation plans for proposals to federal, state, or local funding agencies.

Beenish Mehboob 
Events Officer

Beenish is a skilled data analyst with a robust background in scientific publishing and field epidemiology training received from the US CDC in Kampala, Uganda. She holds an MPH degree from Harvard University and an MSc in health policy from Brandeis University. Currently, she works as an evaluation specialist at NARA Northwest in Portland, Oregon.

With over 8 years of extensive experience in public health and data analysis, Beenish excels in data analysis and program evaluation, particularly within the realm of data science.

Beenish likes to work with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds and places a strong emphasis on teamwork. Recently, she was honored as a WiDS Ambassador for data science in 2023, i.e., ambassador for Women in Data Science 2023. She is currently enrolled in Data Analysis and Visualization bootcamp at UC Berkeley and also a member of American Evaluation Association.

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Media Officer

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Student Liaison