SENIOR CONSULTANTS
Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida
Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida, Ph.D., was born in Moldova, grew up in Israel and completed her graduate work in the US. After earning her doctorate in sociology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2004, Aviva taught at the Sociology Department of Brooklyn College and published scholarly articles on topics related to immigration, identity and social inequality.
Elizabeth DiLuzio
Elizabeth DiLuzio specializes in monitoring, evaluation, applied research, and adult learning. She is the founding CEO of Evaluation + Learning Consulting and has over 10 years of experience facilitating the development of evaluation processes and data-informed culture change for nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies across the United States. Her work is rooted in participatory methodology and a strengths-based approach. In addition to system development, Elizabeth has facilitated hundreds of workshops that cultivate the internal capacity organizations need to sustain their evaluation and strategic planning work. Elizabeth serves as Adjunct Instructor of Quantitative Methods in Evaluation at New York University and as the Lead Curator of the American Evaluation Association’s daily blog, AEA365. She has a Master of Public Health degree, a Master of Social Work degree, and is currently a Doctorate student at the University of New Hampshire. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Jude Kallick
Jude Kallick has expertise in gender and inclusion, leadership development, local governance, and community development.
She has conducted numerous evaluations on social change and development. She has extensive experience in complex, participatory evaluations focusing on democratic governance, peace building, civic engagement, inclusion, and volunteerism. She has the unique combination of being a high-quality evaluator with first-hand knowledge of the practitioner’s reality.
Her approach to evaluation focuses on results-based management holding people at the center, using a range of appreciative and participatory methodologies.
She has vast experience working on strategic, corporate evaluations that include qualitative and quantitative methods, project and meta-analyses, case studies, and innovative participatory methodologies and capacity building. She has worked in Africa, Asia, CIS and Latin America.
In addition to her international work, she supports US non-profit organizations, community-based organizations, and government agencies. Most recently she has been focusing her efforts on supporting organizations addressing homelessness and housing, particularly related to survivors of domestic and gender-based violence.
Marion E. Glick
Marion offers clients strategic counsel and tactical execution to support communications for academic, governmental, non-profit, public and private organizations involved in public health, clinical care and health care delivery, and medical/ life science research and development.
Research Team
Al Reynolds
Research Manager
Raised in South Jamaica, Queens, Mr. Reynolds applies his lived experiences to his work. Most of his clients provide interventions to help support people and communities of color for education equity, social justice, and policymaking. Mr. Reynolds is an independent consultant (DBA DataCollect), who works with several community-based organizations, foundations, and institutions with data collection (qualitative and quantitative), evaluation training and management services.
During his 18-year career, he has worked with several non-profit organizations. From 2014-2021, Mr. Reynolds was the Director of Neighborhood Initiatives at Literacy, Inc., where he was the liaison for 11 community-based literacy organizations that promote the importance of literacy by providing programs and services in NYC schools, libraries, and communities. As a collective, they serve the literacy needs of children and families in Brooklyn and Queens. The initiative aims to help ensure that children read at proficiency level by the third grade.
In 2022, he worked with Greenwich House as a consultant to help direct their new workforce effort's strategy, planning, and launch. The work included exploring proven and promising programming and partnership opportunities, as well as building upon existing Greenwich House programs, populations, talent, and resources.
Other past clients included evaluation work with Touro College, Equity Assistance Center, The United Methodist Society, and The Ford Foundation in developing tracking and data monitoring systems for their social justice and equity initiatives. Al Reynolds has a Bachelor of Arts from City College, The City University of New York.
Jamie Borgan
Research Interviewer
Jamie Borgan is currently a PhD student in Social Welfare at the City University of New York Graduate Center with a focus on policy implementation and equity, especially in the areas of housing and homelessness. Prior to beginning PhD studies, Jamie worked extensively in the field of housing and homelessness with experience in fair housing, social enterprise, domestic violence, harm reduction, and provision of vocational services to individuals experiencing homelessness, criminal legal system involvement, and other structural barriers to housing and employment.
Kiani Oro
Research Interviewer
Kiani is a strategic thinker and youth advocate, who is passionate about dismantling oppressive structures that have historically placed communities of color at a disadvantage for obtaining economic stability/mobility. She earned her M.A in Human Development and Social Intervention at NYU. Currently, Kiani is a doctoral student at CUNY’s graduate center pursuing a PhD in Social Welfare. She is focused on addressing inequity by incorporating community voice in the design of equity-focused programs.
Lived Expertise Consultants
Rhonda Jackson
Rhonda Jackson is a lived experience community engagement consultant and Senior Fellow with the Family Homeless Coalition and Co-chair of the New York City Fund to End Youth and Family Homelessness. She is also a Family Peer Advocate (FPA), council member of Families Together New York State Health Minds Healthy Kids campaign and Co-founder of IMANATION, a grassroots project dedicated to advocating for change and shifting the trajectory of children and families experiencing shelter.
Rhonda’s work is intensely personal, and she has direct knowledge of the impact that the trauma of losing home, family and community and living in shelter has on children. Rhonda is a native New Yorker.
Kadisha Davis
Kadisha is a mom who lives in NYC. She is an advocate for families in America. She wants to see changes in the homeless system, and she is trying to do her best to do just that. She knows that the world can be a better place.
Support Staff
Lou Mintz
Project Coordinator
