Audrey Cooper is the Director of the Evaluation Lab. Audrey is a Registered Nurse with a Master's in Public Health from UNM concentrating in Systems, Services, and Policy. She has over a decade of non-profit health care experience in clinical quality, evaluation, heath policy, and health center management. Audrey's evaluation interests center on cultivating joy in the professional setting, identifying what really matters, using evaluation to create and inform policy, and practicing justice in all settings. 

Ranjana has a doctorate in sociology. She has experience in PreK-12 education research and evaluation. Her interests include education policy, and equity and inclusion in education. She has worked on evaluation of social programs supported by federal, state, city, or private funding. Ranjana worked as a researcher/evaluator at Albuquerque Public Schools and as Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico Center for Education Policy Research, before she retired in May 2018. Post retirement, Ranjana has established a consultancy called Mainspring Evaluation, LLC, to work mainly with non-profits. 

Emma Tomingas-Hatch is the Unit Administrator for the Evaluation Lab, the Master of Public Policy, and the Race & Social Justice Certificate program. She has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico and an M.A. in Folklore from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.