ABOUT

Pamela Anderson, PhD (she/her/hers) is the Principal Investigator and Project Director for the Youth Engagement Network. In this role, she is responsible for the overall leadership of the project. Dr. Anderson has over 20 years of experience working at the intersection between positive youth development and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. She has extensive experience in leading large rigorous evaluation studies, developing adolescent digital health interventions, and managing large multi-site teams.

Pam Drake, PhD (she/her/hers) is a Senior Research Scientist at ETR and combines her love of evaluation with her desire to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. She has over 20 years of experience at ETR and oversees ETR’s evaluation work, as well as directs numerous health-focused evaluations, many in the area of teen sexual and reproductive health. Dr. Drake is the Evaluation Director for YEN.

Deeqa Mohamed is a global and public health professional with a deep commitment to health equity. Since joining ETR, she has been learning program evaluation methods and more recently, how to make evaluation equity-centered. As a part of the YEN Evaluation team, her focus is on continuous quality improvement (CQI). Deeqa aims to use these skills to help YEN and other youth-led programs improve the ways they collaborate with and serve BIPOC youth.

Carly Raasch (She/Her/Hers) provides evaluation support to the YEN partners, including assistance in identifying measures for youth engagement, methods for collecting meaningful data, and other evaluation or reporting needs. Her professional experience includes 10 years in research, evaluation, and communication fields. She has helped several youth-partnering organizations identify best practices for evaluating work with youth

Christopher Walker, MPH (He/Him/His) is a Network Learning & Engagement Specialist of the Youth Engagement Network (YEN). In this role, he oversees the YEN’s youth core partners (YCP), a national group of diverse young people tasked to assist the YEN in achieving its goals. With 5 years of experience working in sexual and reproductive health and 2 in direct youth engagement, Christopher aims to make a positive impact in youth engagement processes.

Stephanie Guinosso, PhD (she/her/hers) is a Senior Research Associate at ETR and leads applied research on the implementation of trauma-informed and healing-centered policies and practices within schools and other youth-serving organizations. In her role as a Senior Content Specialist for the YEN, she oversees the development and implementation of ETR’s Trauma-Informed Youth-Centered Health Design and leads the YEN Network Committee to explore the intersection of trauma-informed and healing-centered practices with youth engagement in sexual and reproductive health.

Azzia Roberts, MPH, CHES (She/Her/Hers), is the Network Learning & Engagement Specialist of the Youth Engagement Network. In this role, she provides overall network coordination, including Technical Assistance & Professional Development requests and Network Committee development & implementation. Her professional background includes 6 years of experience in coordinating multidisciplinary health education and health care teams, with the last 3 years focused specifically on improving adolescent health care quality and access across the country.

Justin Lofton (he/him/his) is the Project Manager for the Youth Engagement Network (YEN). He is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations, including leading the implementation of the project and serving as a key liaison with the funder and project partners who are developing, testing, refining, and disseminating innovative youth engagement strategies for sexual health promotion. His professional experience includes nearly a decade of working with and on behalf of youth to advocate for adolescent sexual and reproductive health, state and federal comprehensive sex education policies, and leading school-based innovative interventions aimed at making learning environments safe and inclusive for LGBTQ2+ youth.