Evaluation Reimagined:
Measure What Matters
A live, in-person showcase of evaluation that is human, practical, and aligned with real impact.
Evaluation Reimagined: Measure What Matters
A live, in-person showcase of evaluation that is human, practical, and aligned with real impact.
Join Audacity Nadler and guest presenters for an immersive event that rethinks what evaluation can be by moving beyond compliance, checklists, and extractive data practices toward insight that is useful, trustworthy, and grounded in community.
Date: Friday, March 13, 2026
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. MT (Free lunch will be served)
Location: Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion, Santa Fe, NM
Format: In-person showcase and TED-style presentations
Why This Event Exists
Many organizations are being asked to prove impact with increasing urgency often using evaluation tools that feel misaligned, burdensome, or disconnected from the people they serve.
At the same time:
Funders need clearer evidence of cause and effect
Programs need evaluation that goes beyond mandatory reporting to support decision-making
Communities deserve methods that are respectful, relevant, and meaningful
Evaluation Reimagined was created to offer a different approach, one that is grounded in values, creativity, and real-world application.
This is an invitation to experience what evaluation can look like when it actually works.
Who Should Attend
This event is designed for people who shape, fund, implement, or evaluate programs, including:
Nonprofits navigating reporting requirements with limited capacity
State Agencies and Public Programs seeking evaluation that informs practice and builds trust
Indigenous-Serving Organizations looking for person-centered, culturally relevant tools
Foundations and Charitable Funders wanting clearer insight into impact across funding recipients
If evaluation plays any role in your work, this event is for you.
What You’ll Experience
This is not a traditional conference.
Evaluation Reimagined is a live showcase designed to spark “I could use that” moments.
We're talking real practical ideas you can adapt immediately to your own work.
You’ll experience:
Short, TED-style mini-sessions (15 minutes each)
Live demonstrations of culturally responsive and arts-based evaluation methods
Concrete tools and frameworks that work in real settings
Honest, solution-focused conversations about what helps
A Q&A session to ensure clarity on how to apply this to your work starting today
The emphasis will be on what’s possible while helping you think outside of the box.
Featured Showcase Sessions
Authentic Evaluation: What Evaluation Can Be
A foundational session that reframes evaluation, debunks common myths, and demonstrates how evaluation can be accessible, empowering, and aligned with every population.
Audie Nadler
Systems Learning: An Equitable Evaluation Makeover
A practical re-imagining of evaluation frameworks through an equity lens, focused on sharing mental models, gathering credible evidence, and ensuring that the perspectives of those closest to the work and most affected by the work are included in the evaluation process.
Carlos Romero
Start Where You Are: Turning Existing Data Into Meaningful Insight
A grounding session that helps organizations understand what they can realistically measure and how to use what they already have.
Lindsay Morgia
Rethinking SWOT Through a Culturally Responsive Lens: The PUEBLO Approach
A powerful example of co-created, community-centered evaluation tools rooted in culture, identity, and place.
Saray Argumedo
When Evaluation Is Messy and Still Meaningful
A real-world case showing how learning, impact, and change can happen even when evaluation doesn’t go according to plan.
Jaime Davis
About the Host
Audie Nadler (they/them)
President and Lead Evaluator
Authentic Evaluation
authenticevaluation.com
Audie Nadler is the founder and lead evaluator at Authentic Evaluation. They work at the intersection of statistics and social justice, supporting nonprofits, public programs, Indigenous-serving organizations, and foundations in designing evaluation that is culturally responsive, practical, and honest.
Audie believes evaluation should not just satisfy requirements, but be about supporting missions, empower teams, and tell the full story of impact.
“I don’t just evaluate programs. I tell the truth.”About the Presenters
Carlos Romero
(he/him)
Executive Producer
Apex Evaluation
apexeval.org
Carlos Romero is the Executive Producer of Apex Evaluation and a nationally recognized leader in equitable evaluation. With more than 30 years of experience, Carlos uses a systems thinking approach to optimize evaluation for equity and learning, focusing on organizations and programs that are addressing the wicked problems of poverty and income inequality, health and education disparities, and racism and discrimination.
Carlos believes evaluation is fundamentally a storytelling endeavor. His pioneering work around Systems Learning™ uses systems thinking to operationalize equitable evaluation principles in order to elevate positionality, scrutinize data, and produce more authentic, more compelling, and more impactful stories.
Lindsay Morgia, M.P.P., M.S.
(she/they)
Founder
The Data Coach
the-data-coach.com
Lindsay Morgia is the founder of The Data Coach, a consulting practice that helps nonprofits turn the data they already have into clear, sustainable insights. With over 15 years of experience in research and evaluation across nonprofit and government settings, Lindsay specializes in making evaluation accessible, practical, and confidence-building.
Lindsay’s work is grounded in the belief that organizations don’t need more data, instead they need better support making sense of it. Through a collaborative, capacity-building approach, Lindsay helps teams understand outputs, outcomes, and impact, and build evaluation practices they can carry forward independently.
Saray Argumedo
(she/her)
Graduate Assistant & Doctoral Student
Arizona State University
asu.edu
Over the past decade, Saray has worked alongside Indigenous communities in South America, Mexico, and the United States to develop culturally grounded, participatory planning and evaluation tools. Her work reimagines conventional frameworks through Indigenous methodologies, including the PUEBLO Analysis, centering on land, culture, balance, and community voice to create approaches that are inclusive, respectful, and meaningful.
Jaime Davis, M.S.
(she/her)
Technical Advisor, New Mexico
Vital Strategies
vitalstrategies.org
Jaime Davis is a Technical Advisor for New Mexico at Vital Strategies, supporting NMHealth’s evaluation of Opioid Settlement Funds and mobile services for people who are unsheltered. Her work focuses on rapid, real-world evaluation approaches that prioritize ethics, flexibility, and meaningful impact.
Jaime brings a trauma-informed, harm-reduction lens to evaluation, with experience conducting needs assessments, supporting mobile outreach programs, and helping teams adapt evaluation methods amid shifting funding and complex realities. She believes evaluation can create impact even when conditions are messy — and that partnering authentically with communities leads to better data and better outcomes.
Why This Matters Beyond the Event
This event was created to help organizations navigate shifts in the evaluation landscape, strengthen collaboration across sectors, and explore approaches that put people (and real outcomes) at the center of evaluation.
As funding becomes more competitive and accountability expectations increase, organizations and funding bodies alike need evaluation strategies that:
clearly demonstrate cause and effect
communicate impact with integrity
support confident decision-making.
This showcase highlights practical, people-centered approaches that lead to stronger evidence, clearer reporting, and greater trust between funders and the organizations they support.
For attendees who resonate with this work, the event also offers a natural starting point for deeper collaboration with Audie or the featured presenters through evaluation planning, implementation, training, or reporting support.
The goal is not pressure, but shared understanding and a collective move toward evaluation practices that strengthen missions and sustain meaningful impact.
Join Us
If evaluation has ever felt overwhelming, disconnected, or underwhelming, this event offers a different experience.
Come to learn. Come to connect. Come to reimagine what evaluation can be and how you can apply this to your work starting now.
Date: Friday, March 13, 2026
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion
Accessibility: Gender-neutral restrooms, quiet space, and accessibility accommodations available
Cost: Free