Veena Pankaj

Veena Pankaj has over two decades of experience working closely with funders and nonprofits to answer questions around program design, implementation, and impact. She is particularly adept at systematically applying a diversity of frameworks and approaches to assess levels of influence and progress towards advocacy and policy change efforts. After serving over 10 years as the Director of Innovation Network—a nonprofit, mission-oriented, evaluation consulting firm—Veena recently launched her own consulting practice, Eval4Learning, where she partners with nonprofits and foundations to better understand the difference they make through their work. She offers a learning orientation that draws on a combination of principles from emergent learning and participatory evaluation to engage stakeholders in collaborative learning engagements designed to promote shared sensemaking, generate insights, and advance collective learning. Her experience ranges across topical areas such as health equity, civic engagement, and social justice. Through her evaluation work, she has developed a keen interest in facilitative learning processes that enhance stakeholder understanding and use of evaluation data. Veena received her MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago and her BA in Sociology from the University of Virginia. She has also completed a certification in organization development through Georgetown University, received a master certification in Emergent Learning in January 2020, and received her Associate Diversity Coach certification in 2021.