Frances E.K Hampton, B.A., B.A. 

President

Frances E.K Hampton is a proud multicultural urban woman in the Ph.D. Applied Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program at Portland State University. Her research focuses on workplace diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice for underrepresented employees. Her leadership style values different ideas and perspectives to accomplish shared goals. Frances enjoys supporting various initiatives that foster empowerment and the fair treatment of others! Her passion for equitable professional practices in evaluation brought her to OPEN! 

"I hope to use my heart and voice to advocate for the fair and fruitful treatment and evaluation of underrepresented groups in workplaces across the U.S."

Chari Smith 

President-Elect  

Chari Smith believes evaluation should be accessible, practical and usable. She founded Evaluation into Action to help nonprofit professionals create realistic and meaningful program evaluation processes. She has taught several workshops helping nonprofit professionals understand the value and use of program evaluation. Her book, Nonprofit Program Evaluation Made Simple: Get Your Data. Show Your Impact. Improve Your Programs., provides step by step instruction on how to do program evaluation.

Chari is a proud member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), Oregon Program Evaluators Network (OPEN) and the International Society of Evaluation Education (ISEE). She is also an adjunct faculty member for the University of Portland’s Pamplin School of Business Nonprofit MBA program. You can learn more at www.evaluationintoaction.com 

Alexis Burnett
Financial Officer

Alexis has over 5 years of evaluation experience in K-12 education in Oregon. Before that, her experience as a substitute teacher in the California Bay Area gave her insight into the importance of teacher onboarding and mentorship as well as the importance of representation of culturally and ethnically diverse educators.

Throughout her time in Oregon, she has gained additional interests in social-emotional learning, culturally responsive evaluation, and data-driven storytelling. Her pandemic hobbies of re-working her own household’s spending and saving habits led her to an interest in the responsibilities of OPEN’s Finance Officer and the community that the council helps to build.

Beryl Neequaye
Communication Officer

Beryl Neequaye has been doing program evaluation for over five years and is currently an Evaluation and Data Specialist at The Research Institute (TRI) in the Center on Evaluation, Technology & Research (CETR). In this role, Beryl uses data visualization tools, database management techniques, and culturally responsive approaches to evaluate programs for continuous quality improvement.

She enjoys working with faculty, staff, clients, and other stakeholders in the development of evaluation plans for proposals to federal, state, or local funding agencies.

Beenish Mehboob 
Events Officer

Beenish is an epidemiologist with a background in scientific publishing and field epidemiology training from the US CDC in Kampala, Uganda. She completed her MPH degree from Harvard University and MSc in health policy from Brandeis University, and currently works as an evaluation specialist at NARA Northwest in Portland, Oregon.

Beenish has over 8 years of extensive experience in public health and data analysis. She also has experience in policy development and managing local and global partnerships. Her primary focus is infectious disease management.

Beenish enjoys working with people from culturally diverse backgrounds, and a firm believer in teamwork. Recently, she was selected as a WiDS Ambassador for data science 2023 (i.e., ambassador for the Women in Data Science).  

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Media Officer

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Student Liaison