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Dawn Hanson Smart

Dawn Hanson Smart is Senior Associate with Clegg & Associates (CAA), in Seattle, WA. Ms. Smart and CAA’s Research Associate, Jennifer Moon, worked with InSites on the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) evaluation, planning for and conducting site visits at project schools and participating in the analysis of data collected and preparation of reports on the project.

Clegg & Associates’ work spans nonprofit, government, and philanthropic organizations, and includes facilitation and evaluation projects on public engagement in education, community and leadership development, AIDS housing and support services, family literacy, youth development, health services delivery, and marine sciences education. Ms. Smart has extensive experience in mixed method evaluation design and the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. CAA is a partner in The Evaluation Forum (TEF), a collaboration created to build internal evaluation capacity in community-based agencies and their funders through training, technical assistance, and coaching. Ms. Smart is a primary trainer with TEF and also one of six consultants identified by United Way of America to offer its outcome measurement training through local United Ways around the country.

Ms. Smart previously worked for the City of Seattle’s Performance Resource Group, an internal consulting team working to strengthen capacity and skills within departments and the workforce, and prior to that the City’s Human Services Strategic Planning Office. She also served King County United Way as Assistant Director of Community Initiatives and as Director of Community Building for the United Way in Dayton, Ohio.

Ms. Smart received a B.A. in Urban Planning and Community Services from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1973 and an M.S. in Health Education from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA in 1983.