Veronica Smith

Evaluation Officer (III)

Veronica S. Smith is an equitable evaluation scientist who brings over 25 years of combined professional experience in equitable measurement, evaluation, and learning (MEL), management consulting, data science, project management, neuroscience, academia, human resources, entrepreneurship, architecture, preK-20 curriculum development, and equity leader professional development to her work. Veronica enjoys guiding people to use valuable and appropriate inquiry frameworks, tools, and practices in culturally responsive ways so they can co-create and evolve solutions to the problems that are most important to them through community, co-creation, and collective learning. Veronica has designed and led equitable MEL initiatives across a variety of sectors including preK-20 education, workforce development, LGBTQ+ advocacy, community-based organizations, STEM, translational science, rural healthcare, and city, county, and federal governments. She has published in peer-reviewed journals on education evaluation, data dashboarding, and neuroscience research. Veronica’s Leadership Tomorrow Seattle professional development experiences have informed her braiding together of multicultural organizational development and measurement, evaluation, and assessment into the application of equitable organizational development, learning, and improvement. Veronica holds a Graduate Certificate in the Advanced Study of Evaluation Science from Claremont Graduate University, a MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Architecture from University of Arizona. Veronica’s community service over the last 30 years includes non-profit board service (Puget Sound Public Radio, The Pat Graney Dance Company, and Powerful Voices), volunteering for PEPS, Technology Access Foundation Academy and Northwest Association of Biomedical Research middle school and high school STEM events, coaching women triathletes, mentoring for the Association of Women in Science (AWIS), and serving as the Washington State Million Women Mentors Co-chair since 2016.