Social advocacy is our specialty.
We use our public voice to bring awareness to the issues you care about.
We don't just help you collect your data - we share it with a wider audience to advocate for what matters to you. We write peer-reviewed
articles, we
blog, we post on
social media, we write
books, we speak at conferences, we appear on
radio shows...all with the ultimate goal of promoting your cause.
Core Values
Impact
With integrity, we design, execute, and disseminate results from research and evaluation to help you address the most pressing social challenges. We take projects from research design to reporting through careful integration of multiple methods (surveys, focus groups, interviews, content analysis, and data visualizations) to help your organization bring community flourishing.
Collaboration
We specialize in working with leaders in the correctional education, re-entry, mental health, homeless services, and peer support fields, helping you maximize the impact you have in the communities you serve. We partner with you to plan and execute an evaluation project from start to finish - together. We dedicate our time, resources, and energy to partnerships with nonprofits, community groups, and foundations that share our values.
Community
Our mission is to partner with leaders to develop and evaluate effective and powerful programs that create meaningful and lasting community change. We love our communities, and we see evaluation as a way of strengthening the impact we can make with the people we serve.
ROBIN LABARBERA, PhD, DSW
FOUNDER, PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
I am a seasoned educator and impact evaluation specialist dedicated to addressing the most pressing societal problems. Experienced in program evaluation, mixed-methods social research, and educational psychology with an emphasis on higher education in prison, re-entry, social welfare, mental health, and more, I am committed to helping organizations bring human flourishing to their communities.
From my humble beginnings as a juvenile detention counselor, to my years as an elementary school teacher in inner-city Los Angeles, to my 15-year career as a tenured university professor and researcher, and now to my role as a professional evaluator who helps organizational leaders maximize well-being in the communities they serve, my social worker heart has been predominant.
It is my mission to use my voice of lived experience and my writing/publication platform to have maximum impact on the most pressing societal problems.
My credentials
Graduate Certificate in Evaluation and Assessment
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
2024
Doctor of Social Work
University of Southern California
2020
Doctor of Philosophy in Education
Claremont Graduate University
2007
Master of Arts in Autism Curriculum and Instruction
Arizona State University
2012
Master of Arts in Education
Biola University
2000
Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice
National University
1993
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Marketing
California State University Long Beach
1998
We are proud members of the following associations and affiliations:
American Evaluation Association
American Grant Writers Association
Grant Station