About Us
Korwin Consulting works closely with a broad and varied network of staff and consultants bringing diverse languages, cultures, and other key skills and experience to each initiative. This collaborative model allows us to pull together the right team at the right time.
Robin Horner, Principal
Robin Horner (she/her) is an experienced evaluator with strong skills in analytical inquiry, project and team management, writing, communication, and the development of quantitative and qualitative evaluation tools. An associate and evaluation manager with Korwin Consulting since 2003, she is the firm’s current principal and owner. Robin starts by listening to clients and understanding the “big picture” of where they are and what they need to learn in order to bring about meaningful change at individual, community, institutional, or systemic levels. She has expertise in building clients’ capacity to design flexible and responsive learning strategies that center community voices and equity principles, participate in assessing the impact of their work, and use evaluation findings to help build more effective and sustainable initiatives. She designed workshops and convenings to help the California Youth Connection, Positive Women’s Network-USA, and economic justice grantees of the Women’s Foundation of Mississippi to build their internal evaluative culture and has led strategic learning and theory of change development with the New York Women’s Foundation.
In addition to her work with Korwin Consulting, Robin has worked on projects with other evaluation teams and independently. She holds a master’s in public administration with an emphasis on nonprofit organizations from San Francisco State University and is a member of the American Evaluation Association. She has worked as a teacher (K-12, including underserved youth) and done paid and unpaid work with organizations addressing gender justice, mental health, and public health issues. She has a background in and ongoing passion for the performing arts and is a lifelong learner of language, culture, and social justice.
Justin Nalley, Evaluator/Project Lead
Justin Nalley (he/him) is an experienced researcher and evaluator, applying these analytical skills to advance social justice in the nonprofit and public sectors. Justin builds relationships at the grassroots and grasstops levels to advocate for change through coalition facilitation and project management. As an evaluator with Korwin Consulting, Justin focuses on qualitative and quantitative evaluation and program design so that our clients, including Driving Force Group, Women’s Funding Network, and Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, are equipped with information to create systemic changes. Justin worked with American Institutes for Research (AIR) to conduct an impact evaluation through the federal Investment in Innovation grant on an early childhood literacy program. He has also worked with Psychometric Solutions to evaluate a workforce development program ensuring that justice-impacted individuals in Virginia have access to education and training. In his public sector capacity, Justin evaluated budget allocations for academic programs within an urban school district for equitable distribution of funding. In addition to Korwin Consulting, Justin works at a nonprofit as a policy analyst, where he handles budgetary analysis at the local and state level, drafts legislation, and lobbies state elected officials on civil rights and civil liberties issues. This work includes advocating for issues such as: equitable funding of public schools, expanding discrimination protections in public schools for gender identity, and the requirement of attorney presence at youth interrogations. Justin studied at University of Maryland Eastern Shore and earned a bachelor’s degree in business at Temple University and master’s public administration from West Chester University. Justin is a member of the American Evaluation Association.
Ankit Rastogi, Evaluation Strategist
Ankit (they/them) is a quantitative methodologist with over a decade of experience using statistical research to inform social movements. Their passion is turning advanced quantitative methods into tools that are clear, useful, accessible, and pleasing to the eye. Further, they bring an understanding of race and other systems of oppression to their work. They are committed to increasing the level of political consciousness in the field of statistics and bringing the power of data to social movements. Ankit’s analytic approach helps community leaders use data to effectively target their resources in service to racial justice. Before joining Korwin Consulting, they supported a range of organizations from small, grassroots nonprofits to the NYC Department of Education, analyzing data from the second largest survey in the United States. Their scholarly work focused on race and place, racial integration, and political participation and centered the perspectives of people of color who live in suburbs and rural areas.
Cynthia Surya, Operations Manager/
Evaluation Assistant
Cynthia Surya (she/her) supports our evaluation work in areas of quantitative and qualitative analysis, copyediting, and data visualization. She is also heavily involved in the set up and maintenance of the firm’s operational and human resources needs. Her willingness to learn and take on new challenges allows her to tailor her skills to meet the unique needs of Korwin Consulting and our clients. With a background in communications and research, she has developed strong writing skills, great attention to detail, and analytical skills to detect patterns, interpret, and communicate data.
Cynthia obtained a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from San Francisco State University, where she focused on communication strategies, social justice movements, and environmental and gender studies. She enjoys building relationships and expanding her worldview through stories and understanding data. Her passion is to help create a better world for all through community healing and systems change. She volunteers for nonprofit organizations, such as GLIDE San Francisco and Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco.
Camille Baclay, Evaluator
Camille Baclay (she/her/siya) brings a commitment to honoring the lived experiences of Korwin Consulting’s clients and the communities those clients work with towards social justice. She is guided by the value of kapwa—a Filipino value that embodies interconnectedness: “I am you and you are me”—and an orientation of understanding and connecting with individuals of all walks of life. While her professional experience in a support capacity span over a decade with different organizations in both the private and public sectors, some of her most memorable and impactful moments have happened while serving on the executive board for the Parent Teacher Association of her sons’ elementary school, where she learned how vulnerability, community outreach, and collaboration are key to enacting change. Her collective experience to date has honed her skills in leadership, community advocacy, program management, and evaluation. Her meticulous attention to detail and skills in research, copyediting, data analysis and visualization, and design and development of evaluation tools, reports, and trainings have helped produce high-quality work for past evaluation projects for Korwin Consulting’s current and past clients, including California Youth Connection, Coalition for Abortion Access and Reproductive Equity, Groundswell Fund, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, Women’s Foundation of Mississippi, and the Women’s Funding Network. She has an educational background in business management and sociology. She enjoys outdoor adventures with her husband and two boys, supporting her sons’ passions in music and tech, recognizing the little signs of her ancestors’ presence in her daily life, and exploring the streets of San Francisco for its vast mural artwork.
Gica Lantin, Human Resources Officer/
Operations Assistant
Gica Lantin (she/her) is a compassionate, amiable individual with a passion for community, connection, and growth. She identifies as a forever student/learner, craving new activities to try as well as deep diving into research and ideas. She’s most excited about project management as well as exploring team engagement and community building. She believes that every team member’s health, well-being, and joy are most important in creating an environment for abundance and success in any company. Gica has over three years of experience working in a non-profit organization leading behavioral assessments which have helped individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities receive equal employment rights, pay, and opportunities for long-term success. She is inspired by Korwin Consulting’s approach and feels so excited to work with a company of similar values.
Alexandra DelValle, Evaluation Strategist
Alexandra DelValle (she/her) brings more than a decade of experience within philanthropy and social justice movements to the Korwin Consulting team. Through her work at the Groundswell Fund and Third Wave Foundation, Alex led efforts to resource and build the capacity of reproductive and gender justice movements in the US and organized funders to increase their giving to the reproductive justice sector. Her analytical approach to interpreting and communicating data helps community and philanthropic leaders understand how to turn evaluation findings into concrete steps toward their goals. In addition to her work with Korwin Consulting, Alex supports foundations, individual donors, and nonprofits to strengthen their work and more deeply live into reproductive justice values.OUR HISTORY
Korwin Consulting was established by Lisa Korwin, as a way to put her deep commitment to equity and social justice into action. Under her leadership for over 20 years, Korwin Consulting provided evaluation, strategy, and capacity-building services to hundreds of nonprofits, foundations, and public agencies. By the time of her retirement, she had developed a nationally respected firm and cultivated high standards of professionalism and a consistent commitment to justice and equity among her staff. These values are upheld by Korwin Consulting, LLC today.