Lisa Aponte-Soto

Lisa Aponte-Soto, PhD, MHA is the President/CEO and founder of Tanoma Consulting LLC, a non-profit firm providing transformative research, evaluation, and training services to advance health, education, and workforce equity. She specializes in asset-based community-driven models using mix methods research and evaluation approaches. She facilitates capacity building workshops on culturally responsive practices, leadership, strategic visioning, and quality assurance for diverse organizations. Dr. Aponte-Soto is also an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University where she currently teaches research methods. She has nearly 20 publications and over 50 presentations including workshops and invited lectures on applying of culturally responsive methodology and practices for working with underserved, under-resourced, and vulnerable populations. Dr. Aponte-Soto currently serves as a Board member-at-large for the American Evaluation Association (AEA). She is also an alumna of the AEA Graduate Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program and a founding member and past chair of the AEA Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse (LaRED) Topical Interest Group.

Education

• PhD University of Illinois at Chicago (2006 — 2013)
• MHA Governors State University (2001 — 2004)
• BS & BA Loyola University of Chicago (1990 — 1995)