Oseela Nadine Thomas, PhD
Oseela began her career in evaluation as a graduate assistant under the leadership of Dr. Hiram E. Fitzgerald. Her first project was evaluating an initiative for Genesee County called Successful Kids Equals Involved Parents (SKIP). Truly inspired by her experience in helping a county initiative, she ventured on her own to become an independent consultant for Battle Creek Public Schools to evaluate their district-wide after school program called, 21st Century Community Learning Centers. Since then, she has continued to work as a consultant in evaluation for various organizations, and has not looked back since.
Today, Oseela is owner of Eval Global Solutions, LLC, which she found on the fundamental premise of wanting to help others succeed and accomplish their goals in their initiatives. She has led several large and small scale evaluation projects nationwide, bringing teams of experts and creative minds together to conceptualize and implement innovative evaluation designs for clients for more than 15 years. Her work spans the domains of K-12 education, early childhood learning, social services, and program and community development.
She brings a rich knowledge of experiences in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analyses, technical report write-ups, and grant assistance and proposal writing. She has worked extensively in helping clients succeed in - building and carrying out effective initiatives, attaining goals and key outcomes, and establishing quality and sustainable programs and services.
Oseela holds a PhD in Ecological-Community Psychology from Michigan State University. Her dissertation focused on implementing a true experimental research design by evaluating the effects of the Young Empowered Sisters (YES!) Program. YES! is a culturally relevant school-based intervention that she designed and developed under the guidance of Dr. William S. Davidson. The program was implemented at a local high school in Lansing, MI, and aimed to improve academic achievement, foster positive youth development, and promote socio-cultural assets among adolescent young women.
Oseela began her career in evaluation as a graduate assistant under the leadership of Dr. Hiram E. Fitzgerald. Her first project was evaluating an initiative for Genesee County called Successful Kids Equals Involved Parents (SKIP). Truly inspired by her experience in helping a county initiative, she ventured on her own to become an independent consultant for Battle Creek Public Schools to evaluate their district-wide after school program called, 21st Century Community Learning Centers. Since then, she has continued to work as a consultant in evaluation for various organizations, and has not looked back since.
Today, Oseela is owner of Eval Global Solutions, LLC, which she found on the fundamental premise of wanting to help others succeed and accomplish their goals in their initiatives. She has led several large and small scale evaluation projects nationwide, bringing teams of experts and creative minds together to conceptualize and implement innovative evaluation designs for clients for more than 15 years. Her work spans the domains of K-12 education, early childhood learning, social services, and program and community development.
She brings a rich knowledge of experiences in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analyses, technical report write-ups, and grant assistance and proposal writing. She has worked extensively in helping clients succeed in - building and carrying out effective initiatives, attaining goals and key outcomes, and establishing quality and sustainable programs and services.
Oseela holds a PhD in Ecological-Community Psychology from Michigan State University. Her dissertation focused on implementing a true experimental research design by evaluating the effects of the Young Empowered Sisters (YES!) Program. YES! is a culturally relevant school-based intervention that she designed and developed under the guidance of Dr. William S. Davidson. The program was implemented at a local high school in Lansing, MI, and aimed to improve academic achievement, foster positive youth development, and promote socio-cultural assets among adolescent young women.