Madison, Anna Marie

(b. 1947, Palestine, Texas). Ph.D., University of Southern California.

Madison is Professor in the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She teaches in the Master of Science in Human Services Program, specializing in public and nonprofit sector management, public policy, performance monitoring, and evaluation. Her evaluation career represents multiple roles as educator, practitioner-consultant, and applied researcher and has been influenced by public policy and urban studies. She has conducted evaluations of human services, management capacity building, youth programming, disease prevention, and education.

Her primary contributions to the field of evaluation center on policies and practices affecting minorities, management, and evaluation; mission-based evaluation; participatory evaluation; and evaluation capacity building. Her recent evaluation work focuses on evaluation capacity building in community-based progressive ...