Our Associates
Our associates come from government, academia, and the business sector. Collectively, our areas of expertise span education, health and social services.
Founder & President
Joy Quill is noted for conducting practical evaluations, for writing and editing skills, and as a trainer/facilitator. She combines a career in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with 15 years of consulting experience.
Contact Joy at joyquill@quillassociates.com
Senior Associates
Celeste Anderson, MA, has 25 years experience evaluating a wide variety of health and social services programs for the State of Delaware's Department of Health and Social Services.
Contact Celeste at celesteanderson@quillassociates.com
Ruth Anne Gigliotti, MBA, CE, is founder and president of Synthesis Professional Services (www.synthesisps.com). She has more than 20 years’ experience supporting federal, private sector, and non-profit agencies’ strategic planning, research and evaluation, information dissemination, and publications development efforts. Contact Ruth Anne at RuthAnneGigliotti@quillassociates.com
George Grob, MA, is President of the Center for Public Program Evaluation (www.EvaluationCenter.Net). The Center offers a full line of support to policy makers and program managers of governments, foundations, and other public entities, including policy development, program evaluation, and accountability and oversight.
Contact George at georgegrob@quillassociates.com
John M. Kelley, PhD, is Executive Director of Planning and Institutional Research at Villanova University, where he also teaches strategic planning and program evaluation at the graduate level. His special interest area is program evaluation in the human services.
Contact John at johnkelley@quillassociates.com
Eric Levin's philosophy as a writer-editor, formed while working in a variety of media and for a wide range of clients for more than thirty-five years, has been that of E.B. White: Choose every word (or image) carefully, and make every word count.
Contact Eric at ericlevin@quillassociates.com
Susan H. Robbins, PhD, brings over 20 years of research and evaluation experience in a number of education content areas across both the K-12 and post-secondary sectors. Susan focuses on providing targeted evaluation services to help organizations improve and demonstrate the quality of their services.
Contact Susan at susanrobbins@quillassociates.com
Liesa Stamm, PhD, has been designing and conducting educational evaluations and research for over 20 years, both as a consultant and as a senior academic affairs administrator in the Connecticut Department of Higher Education.
Contact Liesa at liesastamm@quillassociates.com
Technical Associates
Talia Friedman, MS, specializes in survey design, survey analysis, statistical analysis, data collection, and database creation and maintenance. She is an expert user of MS Excel, SPSS, Snap Survey, Java, and various Adobe products including Dreamweaver.
Barbara Tedesco is a statistician with over 30 years of federal government experience in designing and analyzing statistical samples. She is an expert user of SAS, SUDAAN, and MS Excel. Contact Barbara at barbaratedesco@quillassociates.com