Tiyuv טִיוּב
JOC-LED CULTURALLY-RESPONSIVE EVALUATION
Our team
Advisory board
Advisory Board Member
Tobin belzer, PHD
She/Her/HERS
Tobin Belzer is an applied sociologist whose research and program evaluations for Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and secular non-profit organizations and philanthropists have focused on identity and character development, organizational culture, teens and emerging adults, leadership development, education, congregational studies, gender, arts and culture, special needs inclusion, and Jewish/Muslim relations. Tobin is a Contributing Fellow at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture (CRCC) at the University of Southern California and a Research Affiliate at Stanford SPARQ. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University (2014, 2015-2016) and a Research Associate at the CRCC (2004-2014). She has worked with and for numerous organizations and foundations including Jim Joseph Foundation, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, The John Templeton Foundation, California Community Foundation, Koret Foundation, the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University, the Lily Endowment, and the Covenant Foundation. From 2010-2012, Tobin served as the Senior Project Director at Rosov Consulting, LLC, a strategic consultancy that helps foundations, philanthropists and Jewish communal organizations meet their goals, assess progress, and enhance impact. She earned her doctorate in sociology and joint master’s degree in sociology and women’s studies from Brandeis University. As a doctoral candidate, she was awarded the Joshua Venture Fellowship for Young Jewish Social Entrepreneurs. With Rabbi Julie Pelc Adler, she is the co-editor of Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives (SUNY Press, 2003).
Advisory Board Member
ANNALEE GOOD, PHD
She/Her/HERS
Annalee Good is an evaluator and researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), co-director of the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative, and Director of the WCER Clinical Program. She is co-PI on an ongoing study of digital tools in K-12 education, and supports many youth-serving organizations through culturally responsive evaluation in topics such as tutoring, personalized learning, community schools, and ensuring equitable access and outcomes in advanced learning opportunities. She has published and presented numerous papers on topics including public contracting for digital instructional tools, the nature of the instructional landscape in out-of-school time tutoring, the role of tutoring in school reform, and the role of K-12 teachers in the creation of public policy. Annalee also is the co-lead of the Wisconsin chapter of Scholars Strategy Network. She was an 8th grade social studies teacher before earning her master’s and doctoral degrees in Educational Policy Studies from UW-Madison.
Advisory Board Member
shahanna Mckinney-baldon, PHD
She/Her
Shahanna McKinney-Baldon is the co-founder of Tiyuv and a longtime national thought leader on racial and ethnic diversity in the Jewish community. A former classroom teacher and education administrator, Shahanna has held leadership roles in Jewish education settings and in public school districts and community organizations, including serving in the roles of Reform synagogue Education Director and Jewish Federation high school program administrator; and as Advanced Academic Programs director, Chief Diversity Officer, and Director of Family and Community Engagement for large public-school districts. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Social Justice Education Program and the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Education, she led applied research work in the role of and Director of Professional Learning for Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN)–a consortium of 30 US public school districts working to end the effects of racism on their schools. Shahanna is the former Special Assistant for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Center for Evaluation Research (WCER), and she currently serves there as an evaluator as well as in the role of WCER Clinical Program Co-Director. Shahanna sits on the Board of Governors for Reconstructing Judaism, and co-chairs the Tikkun Olam Commission for the Reconstructionist Movement, one of the major streams of Judaism in North America. She comes from a large Midwest US African American and Ashkenazi family with Seminole, Cherokee, Blackfoot, and Sephardi heritages.
