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Lisa Frantzen
Chair
lfrantzen@tccgrp.com
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Lisa Frantzen is a Senior Consultant of Evaluation and Learning at TCC Group. Lisa leads evaluation engagements with nonprofit and philanthropic clients and is recognized for her ability to engage and address the needs of multiple stakeholder groups particularly in international contexts, having worked in over 18 countries. Lisa has worked with a wide range of clients evaluating the effectiveness of their international collaboration and development efforts including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Women Deliver, Hand in Hand International, World Monuments Fund, Girls First Fund, and Princeton in Africa.
Lisa also has strong field-based experience working within the area of global health and community development. As a Global Programs Manager at AmeriCares, Lisa managed a portfolio of health programs serving Africa and Latin America. This included developing and facilitating in-country partnerships with local organizations to ensure the delivery and monitoring of medical aid to hospitals and rural clinics across the regions. Lisa has also worked for UNICEF Peru and Pact Ecuador helping to design knowledge management strategies for best practice exchange across Latin American governments and INGOs working on poverty reduction and United Nations MDG programs. During her Peace Corps service in rural Honduras Lisa worked with a municipal government to design socioeconomic measurement tools, train community councils in needs assessment, and create a 5-year strategic plan. A common thread throughout Lisa’s work has been her ability to engage multiple stakeholder groups to answer core strategic and evaluation questions, use data to inform program design changes, and build internal capacity in evaluation. Lisa holds an M.B.A. from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a B.B.A. in International Management and Spanish from Texas A&M University. Lisa is fluent in Spanish.
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Christina Bowles
Co-Chair: Conference Program
cbowles711@gmail.com
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Christina Bowles is the Deputy Director of the Global Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning team at Last Mile Health, an organization committed to the vision of a health worker within reach of everyone, everywhere. In this role, Christina is the lead evaluation partner for the Community Health Academy’s Clinical Education work in Sierra Leone, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Liberia. She leads the development of monitoring, evaluation, and learning plans to assess implementation fidelity, measure program effectiveness, and identify areas for quality improvement through the promotion of adaptive management practices. Prior to joining LMH, Christina led the MEL department of a community-led development organization in Sierra Leone where there was a strong focus on participatory and community-based evaluation methods. Christina also has experience coordinating multi-country Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health academic research projects. Christina is passionate about centering equity and stakeholder contribution in evaluation, especially within the international development context. Christina holds a MPH in Community Health & Prevention from Drexel University and a BA in Biology from Hope College.
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