As president of Mt. Auburn Associates, Devon leads Mt. Auburn’s talented team in delivering superior insight and building strong learning partnerships with clients. Devon brings extensive experience and expertise in strategic planning; formative, developmental, and summative evaluation design and implementation; qualitative evaluation; emergent learning; survey design; theory of change development; system change evaluation; and program evaluation. Her ability to build and work with diverse teams has been instrumental in helping clients overcome challenges and achieve their goals.

Devon often works at the intersection of evaluation and strategic planning. She helps strategic planning clients ground their vision in a clear understanding of their strengths and challenges. For evaluation clients, she ensures that Mt. Auburn’s research and analysis inform feedback loops that drive action, learning, adaptation, and innovation. As a trusted advisor and learning partner, Devon has built enduring relationships with clients such as the Working Communities Challenge (an initiative of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston), the Center for Community Investment, The California Endowment impact investing team, and Advance Together (an initiative of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas).

After more than 15 years of leading evaluations of philanthropic cross-site initiatives, focusing on system change and multisector partnerships, Devon brings wisdom and learning from past projects that inform current work. Currently, she is leading a developmental evaluation of Connecting Capital and Community, a multisite initiative funded by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and led by the Center for Community Investment, which aims to increase housing opportunities while centering racial equity. Devon recently completed a developmental evaluation of the California Health Care Foundation’s Partnerships for Action initiative, which supports collaborations between health care and homeless service organizations to pilot projects focused on improving care delivery for Californians experiencing homelessness. Having served for the past eight years as the developmental evaluator of two intensive leadership development programs run by the Center for Community Investment, Devon has developed extensive insights on what it takes to lead in service of equity-focused systems transformation and what impact leadership development programs can have in supporting practitioners’ growth.

Devon began her career at Mt. Auburn in 1992 as a research associate. She left in 1996 to pursue her MBA. In her time away from Mt. Auburn, Devon refined her strategic planning and organizational design skills for Fortune 500 companies at Monitor Company. She returned to Mt. Auburn in 2005 to apply those analytical skills in service of equity and greater social impact. Since her return, she has concentrated on community development and community investment, housing, collective impact, and workforce development. Devon holds an MBA from Harvard Business School (1998) and a BA in Economics and Political Science from Wellesley College (1990). In 2017, Devon completed a yearlong training program on emergent learning conducted by Fourth Quadrant Partners.