Board of Directors

Executive Board

President

Toi Wise

Data and Impact Specialist, Enlace Chicago

Before being elected, Toi Wise served as the Secretary for CEA for 3 years. She is currently a Data and Impact Specialist for Enlace Chicago. In this role, she supports education-based programming by leading the planning and execution of program evaluations, data collection and analysis for grant reporting, and fostering staff evaluation capacity building. Toi was a 2021 CEA-CREA scholarship recipient and a 2022 member of Evaluation Pathways Initiative’s first cohort of the Emerging Evaluators program. She holds a Master of Education in Youth Development from the University of Illinois Chicago. Prior to joining Enlace, Toi worked in elementary classrooms in roles such as Special Education Classroom Assistant. Through her transition from the classroom to evaluation, she strives to incorporate and promote positive youth development in her work and be an agent of change within the out-of-school time space. Her commitment to promoting equitable opportunities for success outside of the classroom guides her work to be a facilitator, collaborator, counselor, and educator in the evaluation field.

Vice President

Jessica Pugil

Principal & Founder,

Working Partner LLC

jessica@theworkingpartner.com

Treasurer

VACANT

Secretary

VACANT

Directors-at-Large

Immediate Past President

Sheila Rodriguez Howard

Senior Technical Assistance and Training Associate, EDC

sheilamilissa@gmail.com

Sheila is currently the Senior Technical Assistance and Training Associate at Education Development Center (EDC) in Chicago, IL. She has extensive experience in evaluation and education research. She started her career, over 12 years ago, as a researcher and was given the opportunity to do some evaluation work, specifically in the afterschool realm and she fell in love with evaluation and has not looked back ever since. She continues to grow in her understanding and experience in evaluation work and the importance of evaluation in education. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Education Studies from Brown University and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Argosy University–Schaumburg. She is fluent in English and Spanish.