About Me

Hi there, I'm Danielle. I think every Monitoring and Evaluation professional should also be an expert in budgeting. I'm old enough to run for President in the United States. I'm a dog mom, sometimes distance runner, k-drama crazed, public transit and bike loving upper mid-Westerner American who somehow found herself living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I love to travel, but I'm not a fan of country-hopping. My best travel experiences are exploring the hometowns of my friends and staying in places long enough to learn the metro system. As a Type 1 diabetic with a sweet tooth, I literally stake my life from time to time on the power of data-driven decision-making. And, for the past 13+ years I've been working on some combination of project planning, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and learning. I started my career working on USAID-funded economic growth projects and after a brief stint in the Life-Cycle Assessment world, I've spent the last five years working with teams on sustainability projects that touch on everything from clean air and bus procurement to water conservation and illegal logging.

I started this blog because I wanted to say what I wanted to say about PMEL, the way that I wanted to say it, without the need for five months and twenty versions of edits (ifkyk). At the end of the day though, if I can help just a couple people improve their project effectiveness just a little bit (super fancy M&E right here!), while getting to say my PMEL peace, then the stress of posting something on the internet will be worth it!