Our Team
Veronica Deenanath
Veronica Deenanath, Ph.D., CPPM, is a co-founder of EEG. Dr. Deenanath has over 10 years of experience working in the public sector, universities and in communities. She is a skilled evaluator, applied researcher, and project manager with experience in design and implementation, monitoring, data collection, analysis, and reporting using multiple types of quantitative and qualitative methodologies in both evaluation and research projects. Dr. Deenanath received her Ph.D. in Family Social Science with a Program Evaluation emphasis from the University of Minnesota and is a Certified Professional Project Manager through the University of St. Thomas. As an immigrant, first-generation college graduate and a woman of color, Dr. Deenanath values the lived experiences of others and community knowledge. She is passionate about racial equity, creating a diverse workforce that is representative of the communities we serve and building wealth for Black, Indigenous, Communities of Color. Her work focuses on college and career access and success, workforce development, immigrant and first-generation college students and families.
Emily Becher
Emily Becher, Ph.D., is a co-founder of EEG. Dr. Becher is systems thinking, culturally-responsive mixed methods evaluator, applied researcher, and facilitator who believes in the democratization of data, the scientific method, and critical thinking. Using a trauma-informed, behavioral health-informed process within her work, Dr. Becher seeks to honor, uplift, and make visible the ways in which everyday community members and professionals are already making data-informed decisions. Through an iterative relational process, Dr. Becher works with project partners to understand what their curiosities and hypotheses are about the initiative under study and to co-create a data system that reflects the actual work happening, by the people actually doing the work. Dr. Becher is most interested in partnering on projects and programs that seek to move the levers of the world towards greater equity and human thriving. Research topics include parenting, parent education, community-based education programs, and the implementation science of prevention and health promotion programs.