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 organizations that promote the principles of active democracy by involving constituents directly in governance and in shaping their communities.

She has published in the areas of evaluation education in management, language in evaluation, new paradigms in evaluation practice, and performance and accountability in human services. She has made domestic and international presentations on evaluation practice and theory. She provides evaluation training and continuing education to practicing professionals in New England and has served as a trainer to develop evaluation capacity in Africa. She is Editor of Minority Issues in Program Evaluation and New Directions for Program Evaluation, has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Evaluation and New Directions for Program Evaluation, and is the cofounder of the Minority Issues TIG of the American Evaluation Association. Madison is a former board member of the American Evaluation Association and has served on the Ethics, Nominations, Awards, and Annual Program Committees.