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 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.