Anne Preston

Anne provides research and evaluation support to Lab initiative projects. Anne seeks out inter-agency partners and cross-sector collaborations that complement her deep capacity for understanding complex systems. She brings creativity, curiosity, and a desire to impact society’s toughest issues in aging, arts and culture, disability, education, health, housing, science, social services, and transportation. Her work across multiple sectors helps her visualize entire ecosystems, finding challenges, and interdependencies within.

Anne’s talent for aligning strategy, programmatic goals, advocacy, and program outcomes has helped organizations evaluate the process around learning, relationship building, collaboration, and collective action. Her research and evaluation approach prioritize constituent feedback—especially from marginalized communities—placing a focus on diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and the development of actionable measurement indicators.

Anne holds a Master of Professional Studies in Arts and Cultural Leadership and a BA in applied business, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Culture and Film.

Education

• Master of Professional Studies University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2010 — 2012)
• BA University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Companies

• Consultant and Collaborator Collective Action Lab (2019)
• Adjunct Professor - Nonprofit Board Service Practicum University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2017)
• Founder and Principal Consultant Sahng Sahng, LLC (2015)
• Leadership Team TC Board Repair (2014)
• Independent Consultant Freelance (2008)
• Lead Consultant and Collaborator Creation In Common, LLC (2013 — 2019)
• Owner Bark Bites Dog Treats (2012 — 2017)
• Contributing Writer The Line (2013 — 2014)
• Grants/Funding, Programs, Operations, and Research Consultant for Arts and Cultural Nonprofits Freelance (2008 — 2014)