These monthly Lunch and Learns are open to Up2Us Sports staff, Board members, coaches, VISTAs, host sites and member organizations. If you’d like to become a member and join, click here.
Facilitated by Dr. Kim Flores and Hello Insight
Dr. Flores has spent the last three decades developing innovative strategies to make evaluation both useful and accessible for all. Drawing upon her training in developmental and environmental psychology, she has introduced hundreds of adults and young people, their programs, and communities to the empowering impact of sustained participation, reflection, and evaluation. Her unique approach highlights the developmental nature of evaluation for young people, staff, organizations, donors, foundations, and communities.
As the co-founder and CEO of Hello Insight, Dr. Flores has been able to realize her life-long dream of building a sustained learning community that fosters the development of young people, staff, programs, organizations, and entire fields of practice. Hello Insight was born out of her passion for supporting youth-serving organizations of all types, sizes, and missions to move the needle on the outcomes that matter most for young people.
Dr. Flores has conducted international research and evaluation projects that have focused on youth development, civic engagement, youth media, the arts, children's rights, post conflict, protection, international development, and a variety of social issues. She has worked with numerous government, U.N. agencies, and non-governmental agencies to examine implementation strategies and impacts of local, national, and international youth initiatives. Dr. Flores has authored several books and publications on youth-led evaluation and organizational learning. She is the founder of the American Evaluation Association’s topical interest group on youth-focused evaluation.
