Stephanie Halbert Jones

Stephanie Halbert Jones is an evaluator and researcher with particular skills in data analysis and visualization, multiple methods of qualitative and quantitative data collection, and participatory strategies in evaluation practice. She has more than ten years of experience designing, managing and implementing complex evaluations, all with an explicit racial equity lens. 

Ms. Halbert Jones holds an M.A. from Clark University, where she was graduated summa cum laude from its International Development and Social Change program, with a concentration in Monitoring and Evaluation. Her specific research interests include gender, race/ethnicity, labor rights, global equity and decolonizing practices, as well as fair and alternative models of economic development. 

Experience

Independent Evaluation Consultant 

• Conducting research and evaluation on program impacts for therapy clients and recipients of antiracism training at the Nava Center, a nonprofit community mental health organization based in Philadelphia. 

• Consulting on focus group research with newly arrived refugees to determine healthcare and other needs for Worcester RISE. 

• Co-Principal Investigator for a learning effort for Pathways to Freedom, a project of Humanity United, funded by NoVoFoundation and Omidyar Group. Pathways to Freedom’s goal is to spur innovative solutions to human trafficking challenges. In this work, Ms. Jones is looking at work supported in the three selected cities (Atlanta, Chicago and Minneapolis), across grantees including a Mayoral Fellow, worker’s centers, and sex trafficking survivor groups, with the goal of co-developing a set of recommendations and lessons for the field.

• Lead author on Best & Promising Practices for Hispanic/Latino/a Inclusion in UMC Churches in North Carolina, a set of recommended practices for multiethnic inclusion in traditionally Anglo spaces. The project was completed as part of the evaluation of the Duke Divinity School’s Hispanic House of Studies, and their work to support thriving Latin ministry. Recommendations are culled from a targeted literature review across United Methodist, other faith-based, social justice, and corporate applied and academic literature.

• Lead researcher for a Documentation and Learning project for Third Sector New England’s Inclusion Initiative. Implemented participatory and community-led methods to research the work of 10 anti-poverty cross-sector networks in New England. Presented learnings on Trauma- and Oppression- Informed practices and the Solidarity Economy. 

• Analyst on multi-year evaluations of the Thriving Rural Communities and Thriving Hispanic/Latino Communities Initiatives of the Duke Endowment and the Duke Divinity School. Major responsibility for the conduct and analysis of qualitative research, including in-depth interviews, surveys and site visits. As part of that evaluation, lead author on a compendium of best and promising practices for inclusion based on review of theological, social justice and business sources.

• Co-director of CAPD’s evaluation work with Encore.org’s Gen2Gen campaign, an effort to expand the use of  adults fifty and older in support of youth, via intergenerational strategies and shifts in narrative. 

• Co-director of a learning and documentation effort for an Equity Learning Partnership of 16 communities in Connecticut, funded by the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund.

• Conducted qualitative data collection, analysis and helped write evaluation reports for the Berrie Fellows Leadership Program and other CAPD projects.

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