Marcia Nation, Ph.D. is the principal and owner of Nation Evaluation Consulting, LLC. She has 15 years of experience working with organizations on program evaluation, strategic planning, and performance measurement.
Marcia brings expertise in applied social science research to her evaluation work, including experience in survey design, focus group facilitation, and interviewing as well as skills in quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
She works with organizations to design and implement evaluations with an emphasis on building internal evaluation capacity and the use of evaluation results.
Marcia’s clients are organizations engaged in work toward societal and sustainability outcomes, including environmental programs, social initiatives, professional development programs, and informal science education initiatives.
She has experience in designing evaluations for collaborations, networks, and coalitions working toward common goals and collective impacts that involve complexity and adaptive management.
About
Marcia received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Toronto in 1994. Her other degrees include a M.Phil. in Geography from the University of Birmingham, England and a B.A. in Geography and Urban Studies from Macalester College. After receiving her Ph.D., Marcia worked as an international development consultant and as a gender and development research manager for Aga Khan Foundation Canada, a non-governmental organization. She worked for seven years for the Voinovich Center for Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University in the areas of training, evaluation, and performance measurement with a variety of non-profit and public sector entities. For eleven years she worked at Arizona State University as the project manager for the Central Arizona Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research program, funded by the National Science Foundation.