Nadia holds a Master’s of Biostatistics from the University of Michigan and a B.S. from Creighton University. Passionate about statistics, education, and organizational growth, she has focused on designing and leading meaningful evaluation and planning activities to improve a variety of outcomes, ranging from public health to leadership development.
Nadia’s evaluation, planning, and facilitation work is focused on the utility of findings. She values engaging with decision makers to promote new ways of solving problems and encourage collective ownership of creative solutions. As a member-owner of TerraLuna Collaborative, Nadia has worked with clients across the public sector in support of mission-aligned work. She supports leadership teams in strengthening their resolve and approaches to solving some of society’s most critical and complex problems. She supports the growth of individuals and partnerships through practices of self-reflection, critical and careful situational analysis, and consent-based decision-making.
In her work with TerraLuna, Nadia has had the pleasure of working with a talented team of evaluators, researchers, and facilitators to address issues of disparity and qualitatively and quantitatively measure the impacts of a variety of interventions and programs. In addition to working directly with program staff, Nadia has worked on creating and identifying appropriate study designs, applying rigorous statistical methodology to survey data, longitudinal data, and outcomes data focused on highlighting program strengths and challenges.
In more than a decade as a member of TerraLuna Collaborative, Nadia has engaged with a variety of organizations that are most grounded in their impact on the people they serve. Often this is through a participatory and partnered approach that builds capacity at organizations to commit to learning with the community. Through micro learnings and meaning making, her partners grow their ability to take in quantitative and qualitative data in real time to adjust programming or strategies to align with their mission. Nadia uses statistical, evaluation, and facilitation methods to identify impacts of such programming, while also raising important questions around context and environmental factors that may confound or overwhelm well-intentioned programming. Translating rigorous analyses into sense-making for organizational leaders is central to her work. Other principles that Nadia brings to her work are humility, a focus on a systems lens, cultural relevance, and a desire to embed equity into data collection, meaning-making, and decision-making.
As a proponent of data stewardship, Nadia is committed to maintaining the integrity of study data and using statistics to uncover patterns and insight, while passionate about communicating meaningful conclusions to stakeholders to ensure an improvement in the lives of those being served.