Cooksy, Leslie

(b. 1958, Eureka, California). Ph.D. Program Evaluation and Public Policy, Human Service Studies, M.S. Rural Sociology, Cornell University; B.S. Applied Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis.

Cooksy is Director of the Center for Community Research and Service and Associate Professor, University of Delaware. Previously, she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at Florida State University; Senior Social Science Analyst for the U.S. General Accounting Office's Program Evaluation and Methodology Division in Washington, DC; and served for 2 years in the U.S. Peace Corps in Sierra Leone as an Agricultural Work-shop Instructor.

She brings a “multilingual” perspective to her work, which incorporates both qualitative and quantitative approaches and a wide variety of disciplines. Her evaluation work extends across public and mental health services, family and ...