Stacy Huff

Dr. Stacy Huff is a program evaluator and researcher whose work centers on evaluator well-being, trauma-informed practice, and reflective evaluation. She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Research Methodology from the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she now works as a Project Director at the Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnership. Her dissertation, Between Empathy and Exhaustion: Exploring Compassion Fatigue in Program Evaluation, explored the emotional impact of evaluation work and pathways to resilience. She is also a co-recipient of the Australian Evaluation Society’s 2025 EJA Publication Award for Excellence, recognizing outstanding international research in evaluation. Stacy’s work bridges compassion, reflection, and rigor to help evaluators and organizations sustain both impact and humanity in their practice.