Independent Consultant
Eva “4Evah evah” Maria Chavez, MA, is a skilled bilingual researcher with strong knowledge in community-based participatory action research and evaluation methodology. She helps organizations build their evaluation capacity and incorporate doable learning approaches into their organizational culture. Eva approaches collaborations with excitement, humility, empathy, and authenticity. She encourages and welcomes diverse voices to the table to design projects for those at the margins and ensure that their voices are incorporated. She is most inspired by the opportunity to work with organizations focused on advancing racial equity and social justice so that under-resourced communities can heal and thrive. She relies on her applied research, culturally-responsive evaluation, and her organizing roots to bring creative, solutions-oriented strategies to address the needs of communities. Eva also has a background in youth development and a decade of experience in developing organizational and evaluation strategies in service of impacting the social determinants of health to create just and equitable communities.