Lorna A. Escoffery, Ph.D.
Lorna Escoffery is the founder and President of Escoffery Consulting Collaborative, Inc. She works with clients on projects from strategic planning to evaluations and accreditations. Dr. Escoffery earned her Ph.D. from the University of Miami and her master’s degree from Stanford University. Her experience includes developing, managing, and evaluating projects and agencies in South Florida and abroad, working both in-house as well as an external specialist for major nonprofit, faith-based, and educational agencies. She has lived and worked abroad given her the ability to communicate and understand clients from diverse backgrounds.
Currently, Dr. Escoffery provides organizational strategy and evaluation assistance for several state-wide programs, medical foundations, community agencies, and educational institutions. Some of her other projects include:
- Creating programs to eliminate health disparities, identify and serve blind children, and address health and nutrition of children
- Proposals the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Evaluation plans for charter schools, local non-profit agencies, foundations, and higher education institutions.
- Organizational assessments and strategic planning for foundations and community-based agencies
Blake urbach
Blake Urbach has 20 years of experience in the evaluation of grant-funded projects. She earned her She earned her master’s and undergraduate degrees from the University of Central Florida and is currently working toward her D.P.A. degree from Valdosta State University. While Ms. Urbach’s approach to evaluation is thorough and scientific, it remains inclusive, purposeful, and economical. By providing quality and participatory evaluations, Ms. Urbach strives to build the capacity of the firm’s partners, unearth intended and collateral impacts, and make a case for sustaining a project once the current funding stream has been exhausted.
Ms. Urbach has served as the lead evaluator for multi-year, large-scale evaluations in the amount of $2M that span several states and involve dozens of institutions. Additionally, she has provided technical assistance to non-profits, authored multiple peer-reviewed publications, and presented nationally on the topic of community collaboration. She has evaluated initiatives designed to increase academic scholarship and persistence, as well as enrichment and behavioral intervention programs that employ a cooperative approach to personal and community development. Some of her accomplishments include:
- Southeast Museum of Photography – Evaluated a National Endowment for the Arts project designed to increase the ability of high school students to express their identity and unique cultures through photography.
- The Orlando Repertory Theatre – Provided technical assistance and capacity building to theatre staff on how to track and measure the impact of two foundation-funded programs: Engaged Learning Through the Arts and Great Ideas for Teachers.
- Elevate Orlando – Served as an evaluation coach for the project’s leadership team to help quantify and assess the desired outcomes in academic success and completion, behavior, developmental attributes, and hopefulness for the future among at-risk high school participants.
- Florida State College at Jacksonville – Evaluated a project funded by the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council to provide students ages 18-22 with intellectual developmental disabilities the opportunity to receive career and technical education training in an inclusive environment.
- Daytona State College – Evaluated a partnership project funded by the U.S. Department of Education designed to engage high school students in an articulated program of study leading to as Associates Degree in a selected discipline.
Claudia Tirado
Claudia Tirado is an independent, creative graphic designer specializing in bringing new life to brands and corporations in a wide range of industries like: health care, art, educational services, broadcasting, film, construction, consulting services and technology.
She earned a degree in graphic design from Prodiseño that is headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela, her home country. The experience she had working and living in Latin America as well as the US has given her a wide perspective and a rich visual reference of the different markets and the people that make up those markets.
Claudia has more than 10 years of experience working in-house leading businesses toward a new way of representing themselves, creating corporate ID’s, collateral materials, brochures, newsletters, direct-mail, and large-format trade show graphics.
Claudia has been leading and accomplishing different successful projects. She was Art Director and Graphic Designer for Soluciones del Futuro, she also worked for Discovery Channel Latin America organizing and selecting audio-visual media for editing, assisting producers, organizing any and all details pertaining to filming, editing, footage retrieval, and voice-over supervision. She has taken on several graphic design projects for movies, television programs, commercials and music videos as well as different corporations and individuals.
- Experience working at the corporate level.
- Ability to convey technical information in an engaging style.
- Experience working in a team atmosphere as well as a leader.
- Experience working in US and Latin American markets.