Culture of Data Committee
The Culture of Data (CoD) planning committee helps to organize the Culture of Data virtual conference. The CoD conference brings together community groups, academia, state/local government, healthcare entities and nonprofit organizations that share a goal of achieving health equity. The Culture of Data conference is designed to strengthen the use of data to support the CPHA vision of creating the healthiest Colorado for everyone by:
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Sharing innovative practices that promote partnership and collaboration between community members and public health professionals to make data more accessible, meaningful, and actionable.
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Exploring examples of data sharing with and by communities and how communities can leverage data to advance health equity and health outcomes.
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Highlighting data sources and methodologies to identify and measure community assets and health equity.
What does an average committee meeting look like?
We use the committee meetings to brainstorm and make decisions about conference preparations. We meet once a month from August-December, and twice a month from January-April. We also host an abstract review meeting in January. We don't expect for committee members to attend every meeting - if you see the agenda and want to weigh in on a particular topic, we welcome you to come!
Meet the Chairs
Ben Lesiak
Committee Chair
Ben is an Evaluation and Learning Manager with The Colorado Trust, a statewide healthy equity foundation, where he supports a portfolio of evaluation projects ranging from direct services and capacity building to policy/advocacy and impact investing. He holds a Master of Public Health in health policy and management from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and is currently a doctoral student at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health studying implementation science and evaluation. His professional experience includes NGO field work, global health research capacity building, higher education teaching/administration, philanthropy, and local public health program management and evaluation
Grace Honce
Associate Chair
Grace Honce is both the Founder and Lead Evaluator at Hartway Evaluation Group, providing evaluation consulting support to lifelong learners and field trailblazers in organizational evaluation learning and strategy, as well as a stay-at-home parent for two sprouting citizens of the world. She specializes in qualitative and mixed methods evaluation work as she finds the deep value in and thus a responsibility to represent the individuals behind the data. Grace’s professional history is a strong mix of community healthcare and evaluation, creating a wide perspective on how society and policy impacts individual and community health and wellbeing. Grace received her Master of Public health in Community and Behavioral Health from Colorado School of Public Health where she first entered the evaluation field.
