Leadership

IC TIG Leadership Team 2025

Naaima Khan
https://www.creategood.space/
Chair

Naaima is based in the Greater Houston, Texas area. Her business, Create Good, helps organizations and individuals advance racial and economic justice through equity-centered strategic planning, evaluation and storytelling services. Fun Fact: Naaima started her business in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metro area and misses walking the lakes and trails.

Tasha Parker
https://iodict.com/
Outgoing Chair

Dr. Tasha Parker is an experienced professional based in Wichita, Kansas. With over 17 years of experience in mental and behavioral health, social justice, and youth development, she is the founder and Community Partnership Guide at the Institute of Development, a community consulting firm. She is also privileged to spend one day a week sitting and supporting clients on their personal journeys, providing clinical therapy. Dr. Parker holds a Ph.D. in Community Psychology and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Fun fact: Tasha is an advanced trained certified clinical hypnotherapist and loves creating art through food and mocktails!

Nathan Browning
https://kiaerresearch.com/
Chair-Elect

Nathan is a born-and-raised Michigander living in Kalamazoo. He works with organizations that are trying to make the world a better place, especially around health and criminal justice. He knows his way around a spreadsheet and really enjoys visualizing data as well as conducting statistical analyses, but relishes any opportunity to do qualitative inquiry (especially in-person). Fun Fact: Nathan enjoys riding his ebike for transportation and is a local advocate for safe and viable walking, biking, and transit infrastructure.

Lily Sussman
https://lasvisions.com
Program Co-Chair (Y2)

Lily is the owner and founder of LAS Visions LLC, a women owned small business, located in Missoula, Montana and working nationally. 
We partner with healthcare organizations, nonprofits, and public agencies committed to more equitable health outcomes. Our partners are changing the food system, reimagining healthcare, and advancing health equity. We use our superpowers as a former K-12 teacher to make evaluation accessible, engaging, and participatory.  Fun Fact: Lily is also an herbalist and Fertility Awareness Method instructor. She's passionate about ensuring we have ALL the options when it comes to our fertility and choice of contraception. 

Kayla Meyers
https://kmeyersconsulting.com/
Program Co-Chair (Y1)

Kayla is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Bridgepoint Evaluation, a women owned small business located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
They partner directly with organizations to transform messy data into clear insights, helping them see and communicate their impact effectively. Bridgepoint offers training and classes to make program evaluation easy to understand, empowering anyone who wants to learn how to do it. They serve mission-driven organizations who need a comprehensive measure of their community impact. Fun Fact: I love animals and animal facts! Want to chat about an animal species you just learned about? I'm your girl. 

Ashima Singh
https://ashimasingh.org
Newsletter Editor

Ashima is the owner and founder of AshimaSingh.org, a woman-owned small business in Baltimore, MD. She is an unrepentant generalist with special interests in STEM education programs, education assessment and accreditation, fair and just teams, facilitating team dialogs, goal setting/planning, and general thought partnership. Fun Fact: Ashima uses stories from her life interests in art, nature, and psychology to help people and organizations build healthier relationships with programmatic data and related self-reflection.

Courtney Bolinson
https://www.headandheartevaluation.com/
Social Media/ Web Chair

Courtney is currently based in Madison, WI. Her business, Head & Heart Evaluation, focuses on applying transformative evaluation principles, culturally-responsive evaluation practice, and systems thinking to evaluations of complex systems. She also focuses on bridging the evaluation world with the "impact measurement and management" world of social finance and private sector impact investment. Fun Fact: Courtney is an avid karaoke-goer and an ice cream aficionado.