CONTACT ELLEN TAYLOR-POWELL, Ph.D.

Responsibilities:
Ellen has statewide responsibility for capacity building in program development and evaluation. She provides training, works directly with faculty and staff on program evaluation and outcome measurement, and develops resource materials. In addition, she conducts high priority evaluation studies, consults with local groups, state agencies and national partners. She trains widely on the use of the logic model in program planning and evaluation as well as all aspects of program evaluation and has written extensively on practical evaluation applications. From 1998 to 2002, she provided leadership for the design and implementation of an institution-wide program impact system. From 2001 to 2004, she was co-investigator of the Tobacco Control Monitoring and Evaluation Program funded by the Wisconsin Tobacco Control Board that provided evaluation training and technical assistance to local tobacco-free coalitions across Wisconsin. She served as reviewer and then editorial chair and member of the Board of Directors of the Journal of Extension from 1998 to 2001. She is past chair of the Extension Evaluator's Topical Interest Group of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). She served as chair of the Publications Committee of AEA from 2002 to 2004 and served on the American Evalaution Association Board from 2004 to 2007. Ellen joined UW-Extension in 1994.

Publications:
Extension evaluation publications available at: UWEX Publications

Education:
Ph.D., Human Service Studies/Development Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Emphasis: Program evaluation
M.S., Human Service Studies/Adult and Nonformal Education, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Emphasis: Program planning
B.A., Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA.

Ellen Taylor-Powell, PhD
Distinguished Evaluation Specialist
609 Extension Building
432 N Lake Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608)262-2169
FAX: (608)262-9166
Email: ellen.taylor-powell@ces.uwex.edu