Meet the NCEN 2026 Board Members

Monifa Beverly is owner and principal of Beverly Consulting Group, LLC based in Charlotte, NC. Monifa holds a doctoral degree in Education with a focus on culture, curriculum, and change, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in economics. She has 20 years of program evaluation experience applying a collaborative and culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CCREE) approach toward supporting community members and organizations, educational institutions, and informal science organizations. Monifa has provided evaluation services to foundations and multiple federally funded programs. In addition, Monifa has mentored graduate students for over 15 years as an assistant professor of qualitative research and statistics, a dissertation chair, and a consultant. She has benefitted from RTPE (now NCEN) events and webinars, and she plans to continue building capacity for current and future evaluators and expanding the network of evaluators in North Carolina.

Julie T. Marks is a Senior Research Associate and Director of Evaluation at the Education Policy Initiative at Carolina (EPIC). She has extensive experience leading mixed methods implementation and impact evaluations of K–12 education policies and school-based initiatives across diverse contexts, with a primary focus on programs that support student development, advance educational equity, and foster inclusive learning environments. Dr. Marks conducts and oversees research spanning the education pipeline, with a primary focus on the implementation and impacts of supports for low-performing schools. She has expertise in mixed methods research designs, and in translating complex findings into actionable insights for key education stakeholders, including local, state, and federal policymakers, K–12 and postsecondary administrators, and external funders. She serves as board president for the North Carolina Cyber Academy, one of North Carolina’s two public all-virtual charter schools, and holds an adjunct assistant professor appointment in Policy, Leadership, and School Improvement in the School of Education at UNC–Chapel Hill.

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Jessica Koehler just recently joined NCEN in the Fall of 2024 excited to connect with and learn from evaluators across the state of North Carolina. Jessica has been conducting research and evaluation in the k-12 and higher education space since 2013 in roles at non-profit organizations, academic institutions, and private consulting to nonprofit and for-profit clients. Jessica uses a mixed-methods approach with developmental and principles-focused evaluation lenses. Her content areas include human development, positive youth development, character development, motivational psychology, and STEM education. Since 2019, Jessica has been at Wake Forest University in various assessment and evaluation roles. Her current work is leading the research and evaluation efforts within the Wake Forest University Program for Leadership and Character in the Professional Schools (Law, Medicine, Engineering). She has a PhD in Education.

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