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Board of Directors
The MNEA Board is an all-volunteer working board. All board members are responsible for and actively involved in the on-going management, implementation, and work of the organization.
Erin Flicker, 2026 President
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Erin Flicker, PhD, MSW, LICSW (they/them), serves as the Deputy Director for Integrated Population Health at the Minnesota Department of Human Services. In this role, they lead the state’s efforts to design and implement integrated care models that support whole-person health. Over the past decade, Erin has guided research and evaluation teams in behavioral health, focusing on program implementation, policy evaluation, and building infrastructure for evidence-based service delivery.
Erin is also the founder of Flicker Consulting, where they help organizations incorporate evaluation practices into their programs using a systems approach.
Outside of work, Erin loves exploring new restaurants, reading, and spending time with their two middle-schoolers. Always up for a book chat, they’re happy to swap recommendations anytime.
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Katie Boone, 2027 President-Elect
Katie Boone, Qualitative Researcher and Community Engagement Coordinator, Economic Assistance and Employment Supports, Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families. Katie has over 20 years of experience working in and with communities. She is an integrated practitioner whose work is grounded in experiences from the Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter, as a certified Narrative Coach, and a deep Regenerative Practitioner. Her roots are in community building and designing collaborative and transformative systems change. Bringing her lived experience as a teen mom, Katie believes in and has witnessed the power of story and lived experience from communities who are most impacted by inequity to transform more just policies and practices for all families to thrive. She seeks opportunities to design and implement experiential and developmental learning that builds the capabilities of people seeking to make transformative change. This is her calling: value driven work that is rooted in equity and community. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Organizational Leadership, policy Development and Evaluation Studies at the University of Minnesota. Kylie Nicholas, 2025 Past President
Kylie Nicholas is the founder of KA Nicholas Consulting. KANC is a woman-owned, full-service evaluation, facilitation and planning consulting firm that provides tailored support and tools to individuals, programs, and organizations that are working to achieve more equitable outcomes through their work. She is passionate about helping organizations develop evaluation strategies that tell the full story of the program’s work without burdening program staff or participants. Kylie has developed evaluation strategies for foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies, including multi-year evaluation strategies for Greater Twin Cities United Way Innovation Initiatives programs. For over 10 years, she has been drawing on her complementary backgrounds in program evaluation and the arts to develop creative strategies for gathering insights to help nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies understand and refine programs. When she's not thinking about evaluation, Kylie is probably exploring her St. Paul neighborhood with her dog and toddler, digging in her gardens, or trying a new-to-us brewery with her spouse. Sam Storck-Post, Treasurer
Patrick Kaiser is the Director of Educational Evaluation at ServeMinnesota, the state’s administrator and central hub for federal AmeriCorps programs. Patrick manages evaluation and reporting for ServeMinnesota’s portfolio with a focus on education programs. He also supports the evaluation needs of partner organizations replicating Minnesota AmeriCorps programs across the country. He previously taught fifth grade in Savannah, GA as an AmeriCorps member and worked in education policy advocacy in Atlanta, GA. Patrick attended the University of Notre Dame where he received a B.A. in Political Science and Economics and a M.Ed. in Elementary Education, and recently completed the University of Minnesota Evaluation Studies Certificate program. Patrick enjoys traveling, adult sport leagues, and walking with his wife and dog through their St. Paul neighborhood.
Kim facilitated data utilization among stakeholders of seven employing colleges and universities, across 20 years. Collaboratively with faculty and staff, he led and developed many student outcomes assessment plans and studies, across institutional levels of analysis. Kim led and facilitated assessment program planning, consulted on revisions of institutional database structures, constructed and executed research methods and sampling plans, developed instruments for data collection, analyzed and reported data, and (ultimately) promoted stakeholders’ use of findings. Across the past few years, Kim started Clear Case Grants (a consulting company), served as Chair of the Data Team for a regional affiliate of one of the two major political parties, and volunteered with the Veterans Administration and with nonprofit organizations. Additionally to evaluation work, Kim enjoys classical music, traditional jazz, sports, Minnesota’s great natural resources, and continuously reinforcing his Christian faith. Ashley Estrella, Membership Co-Chair
Ray Martinez, Membership Co-Chair
Tarnjeet Kang, Program Co-Chair
Noran Aly, Program Co-Chair
Noran Aly, MDP (She/Hers), is an experienced Community Development Evaluation Practitioner and Economist by training, with almost five years of experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Her focus is on measuring impact to support evidence-based and community-centered narrative building and decision-making, particularly through blending participatory evaluative approaches with analytical data modeling and visualization using tools such as STATA, R, NVivo, SPSS, and Tableau. Her work aims to bridge the gap between quantitative insights and the humane aspects of community development to measure culturally-centered impact. Currently, Noran serves as the Learning & Impact Strategy Manager at Greater Twin Cities United Way in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she provides strategic thought leadership in creating measurement indicators, impact evaluation frameworks, and retrospective shared learnings across various impact areas of education, housing, food security, and economic opportunity. Her role includes driving alignment of program-level evaluations with the organization’s overarching framework and disseminating utilizable annual impact data to diverse community stakeholders, from community members to donors to legislators and decision-makers. Previously, Noran worked as an Economic Researcher at the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development in Cairo, Egypt, where she monitored and evaluated key performance indicators of multiple ministries and public agencies. Noran’s multinational consulting experience includes projects with the International Republican Institute in Washington DC, Rainforest Alliance in Guatemala, and El-Nidaa Foundation in Egypt. These projects involved qualitative analysis, grant proposal writing, export-readiness assessment report building, financial and economic cost-benefit analysis, and the development of strategic plans for sustainable development and governance. Her academic credentials include a Master of Development Practice (MDP) from the University of Minnesota, and a B.Sc. in Economics with a Minor in Statistics from Cairo University, Egypt. She also attended a summer school at the University of Oslo, Norway, where she studied the intersectionality between Human Rights and Community Impact Evaluation as it relates to trust- based philanthropy. Noran has co-presented her work at regional conferences, including the International Conference for Sustainable Development in New York, and a workshop on encouraging and empowering youth-led narratives through impact evaluation at the American Evaluation Association 2024 conference in Oregon. Her co-published work focuses on export-readiness assessment and sustainable livelihoods in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala. Kristin Van Dorn, Communications Co-Chair
Kristin is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota, earning her doctorate in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development. Courtney Schultz, Communications Co-Chair
We are a volunteer board of directors who are committed to our local community of evaluators. Feel free to email us at info@mneval.org. We will return your email as soon as we can! Thank you to our past presidents for their service!2025 Kylie Nicholas 2024 Alissa Jones 2023 Molly O'Connor 2022 Elizabeth Taylor-Shiro 2021 Claire Dunlap 2020 Maira Rosas-Lee 2019 Nicole MartinRogers 2018 Melissa Chapman Haynes 2017 Sarah Cohn 2016 Randi Nelson 2015 Ann Zukoski 2014 Rosemary White Shield 2013 Gale Mason-Chagil 2012 Leah Goldstein Moses 2011 Frank Schweigert 2010 Kathy Gilmore |
Samuel Storck-Post is an Evaluation Officer at The Constellation Fund, a foundation mixing philanthropy with cost-benefit analysis. He earned a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and has a background in education and college access. Sam was driven to pursue evaluation out of an interest in understanding how to apply evidence-based practices. In his free time he enjoys hiking, sewing and various other crafts, and sword fighting.
Ashley Estrella is a program evaluator with over 10 years of experience in non-profit, federal government, and state government settings. She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Community Health Promotion with a focus in Program Evaluation from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is passionate about co-developing evaluation frameworks with health and human services professionals and the communities they serve. 
Ray Martinez is the Founder and Principal Consultant of RM Methods. They thrive in creative and collaborative solution building through relationship centered activities. Their expertise in building shared understanding, strategy development, and coaching guides their work with nonprofits and foundations. Ray believes that pragmatic, iterative practice towards more connected, collaborative, and brave cultures in our organizations will strengthen our collective capacity to deliver impactful results today and seed new possibilities for tomorrow. That’s why they founded RM Methods to support individuals and organizations doing the good work through evaluation, program design and capacity building services. Ray has been evaluating programs and practices for over 10 years in a variety of roles in the education, sexual violence, child abuse, and philanthropy sectors. Ray is a mixed race, queer, non-binary person dedicated to anti-racist practice. They hold a BA in Spanish Language and Latin American Studies from Colorado State University and a Master’s of Social Work from the University of Minnesota with a specialization in Non-Profit Management.
Kristin Van Dorn serves as the Director of Development and Communications for ACES, a nonprofit serving middle school youth in the Twin Cities. Before ACES, Kristin worked in user experience consulting and digital strategy roles at an agency and across the University of Minnesota, including as an analyst in the UMN's world-class usability lab, where they facilitated over 80 unique evaluations per year. And, long before that, Kristin began her career in the nonprofit sector in fundraising and program management.
Courtney Schultz directs monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning processes at All Hands and Hearts. AHAH is an international nonprofit providing community-inspired, volunteer-powered disaster relief, where Courtney works to understand, communicate, and continuously improve the impacts of relief efforts through participatory, community-based methods. She has worked with development organizations across sizes, sectors, and geographies to reach their goals and deepen their impacts. Believing in the strength of locally-led efforts, Courtney collaborates with communities around the globe to design and implement monitoring and evaluation systems that are driven by proximate voices. She is passionate about initiatives that are rooted and nurtured in local visions of positive, ongoing growth.
