Katherine Dawes

Katherine Dawes is a Data Foundation Senior Fellow and a former Evaluation Officer at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Katherine is regarded as an expert in federal evaluation policy and an advocate for Lean Management in government. She is known for building coalitions across sectors to develop methods and capacity for environmental program evaluation and continuous improvement. Katherine teaches program evaluation as an Adjunct Professor at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University; she holds a dual master’s degree in public administration and geography from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School.