President and Executive Director
InSites, United States
Beverly Parsons, Ph.D., is Executive Director of InSites, a non-profit research, evaluation, and planning organization. InSites (www.insites.org) works through system-oriented evaluation, research, and strategy in education, environment, health, and social services.
Beverly is committed to fostering health and well-being for people and planet as evidenced in the book, Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future (2020, Information Age Publishing). She is the book's lead editor as well as co-author of several chapters. The book's title matches the theme of the 2014 American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference, the year she was president of AEA.
Her most recent publication is Paradigm-Based Evaluation for Eco-Just Systems Transformation co-authored with Katie Winters in the special issue of the Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation (JMDE) on decolonization of evaluation.
Beverly has worked closely with governors, legislators, local communities, philanthropy, universities, and businesses across sectors in support of environmental sustainability, social justice, economic well-being, and community development. Her PhD in educational research and evaluation (University of Colorado-Boulder) grounds a career of compassionately using mixed evaluation, research, and facilitation strategies to reveal ways to influence complex systems in support of learning, equity, and sustainability. Her background in medicine and science (BS in medical technology; teaching assistant in physiological chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison) has strengthened her interdisciplinary interests and focus.
Beverly is on the board of the International Evaluation Academy (https://ieac.global/) as well as the Kitsap Environmental Coalition in WA state (a nonprofit volunteer organization, focused on the well-being of all forms of life). She is also a licensed massage therapist. She lives in Hansville, WA.
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