Naomi Dorsey has more than five years of experience supporting rigorous impact and performance evaluations of investment in climate, agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and environmental and natural resource management programs in Latin America, West and Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe with a focus on qualitative data collection, fieldwork, and analysis.
Dorsey currently serves as a research analyst for an impact evaluation of a village-based advisors-led extension approach for AGRA. In this role, Dorsey leads qualitative data collection and analysis across five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dorsey also serves as a research analyst for an impact evaluation of public-private partnership investments in Guatemala and El Salvador, and for a case study of an innovation fund in El Salvador designed to attract private investment in the country’s tradable sector funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation. In her role as analyst and project manager for technical assistance and an evaluation of the Refugees with Disabilities Vocational Training and Employment Demonstration, Dorsey leads qualitative data collection, analysis, and synthesis funded by SourceAmerica.
Dorsey recently returned from a three-month assignment in Tanzania where she worked closely with EDI Global as part of Mathematica’s Global Insights Initiative. She holds a B.A in political science from Brigham Young University.