Sandra Silva wearing a rust orange shirt and bright blue beaded necklace smiling outside

Sandra Silva

Change Consultant, Evaluator

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Sandra (she, her, hers) is a Latina Evaluator with deep experience supporting research and evaluation projects. Her work has included community, state, and federal level activities focused on improving equity in low-income and vulnerable populations across various content areas. She is experienced in using participatory, empowerment, and culturally responsive evaluation models. In her current work, she is supporting social change by strengthening capacity in communities and diversifying the evaluation pipeline. She is working in Colorado communities to develop evaluation knowledge and skills among community members. She also directs the Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) program, established to develop a pipeline of evaluators from communities that are underrepresented and committed to culturally responsive and equitable evaluation. Sandra likes to spend her time away from work, walking, reading, taking photos, listening to music, enjoying art, and eating her way around the world.