Founder + Principal
Data+Soul Research, United States
Min Ma (she/her) is the Founder and Principal of Data+Soul Research, a research and evaluation consulting firm in Boston, MA. She practices culturally responsive and equitable evaluation and draws from a broad toolbox of evaluation, social science, and human-centered design methods. With aims to conduct evaluation with "data + soul," her approach is people-centered, creative, and reflective of her commitment to furthering racial equity using evaluation and evaluative thinking as a tool. She has led research and evaluation projects in the social sector for more than 15 years.
Min's current evaluation work focuses on networks and coalitions, tracking and learning from adaptations, and using evaluation to push for system shifts. She uses tools such as Social System Mapping, Outcome Harvesting, and Ripple Effects Mapping to support funder and coalition learning across the many layers of systems change. Min is also the current president of Greater Boston Evaluation Network, a mother, rock climber, and aspiring polyglot. She holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a BA in Psychology from Haverford College.
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