Our Team

Drawing on diverse areas of expertise, we share a commitment to finding new and innovative ways to enhance the value and utility of your evaluation.

Click on each team member’s photo or name to read their bio!

Looking to contact someone with expertise in one of our portfolio domains? Please email all collaboration inquiries to the Principal Evaluation Associate of each portfolio.

Joey Rutherford, Ph.D.

Associate Director
Sarah Mason, Ph.D.

Center Director
Jessica Osborne, Ph.D.

Principal Evaluation Associate, Higher Education Portfolio
Shannon Sharp, Ph.D.

Senior Evaluation Associate
Rachel Scott, Ed.D.

Principal Evaluation Associate, K-12 Education Portfolio
izzy Thornton, Ph.D.

Principal Evaluation Associate, Children, Families, and Communities Portfolio

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We Choose Mississippi

The CERE team is committed to providing partners with useful, place-based, and contextually-relevant evaluations. This also means working to improve the places in which we live and work. Listen to some of our evaluators describe why they choose Mississippi!