Robert seeks to advance racial equity through his professional and personal life. He draws inspiration and guidance from the Equitable Evaluation Initiative, culturally responsive and equitable evaluation principles, and liberatory design mindsets in his professional engagements to keep himself, his team, and partners accountable to racial equity. 

Robert’s portfolio at Equal Measure over the past 10 years has focused on evaluations of complex, systems change-oriented initiatives in various sector, place-based, and institutional settings. He has observed how systems change and transformation journeys take place across the country through engagements with foundations and community-based organizations such as StriveTogether, the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions’ Opportunity Youth Forum, community and technical college consortia in the northeast U.S. and Wisconsin, and Lumina Foundation. He aims to center racial and socioeconomic equity in those journeys through facilitation, strategic consulting, and evaluative learnings. 

Robert uses a mixed-methods approach, leading with storytelling and qualitative insights from individuals’ experiences, supporting those insights with quantitative data analysis and tools, and providing actionable findings. He has led and co-led learning and evaluation engagements with clients such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Jobs for the Future, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 

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Playing strategic board games with friends; spending time in nature near his home in Albuquerque; and appreciating the small, everyday moments that are part of the human experience.