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Jana Kay Slater, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist Jana Kay Slater has over twenty years experience evaluating health education and prevention programs for low income and high risk populations. Her current interest is working with grantees as an "evaluation coach," converting grantee anxiety and discomfort about evaluation into support of the process, and building local skills for collecting and using evaluative information for program improvement. From 1987-1998 Slater was a Research and Evaluation Consultant at the California Department of Education. Prior to that she was an evaluation specialist at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. The American Evaluation Association (AEA) awarded Slater the Marcia Guttentag Fellowship Award (1982) and the Robert Ingle Service Award (1997). She has served in multiple leadership roles for AEA, including as a member of its Board of Directors. Slater has taught graduate courses in applied research methods at the University of California, Davis, and California State University, Sacramento. She is coeditor of a new Jossey-Bass book titled Foundations and Evaluation: Contexts and Practices for Effective Philanthropy, and was coeditor of Advances in Survey Research (1996), a volume in the Jossey-Bass New Directions for Evaluation series. Slater received her PhD in Applied Experimental Psychology from Southern Illinois University. Download curriculum vita (PDF document)
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