Ali Miller

Associate Director of Learning and Evaluation Ali Miller leads ECMC Foundation’s learning and evaluation efforts. Her role involves partnering with the Foundation grantmaking and investment teams to articulate the strategic direction and goals of our portfolios and developing methods to assess progress toward these goals and surface real-time learnings, with a focus on being agile and leveraging results to inform future decision making. Ali also oversees efforts to foster data and evaluation literacy and promote a culture of data-driven grantmaking across the Foundation. By cultivating partnerships, disseminating key findings and advancing evaluation, Ali intends to amplify the Foundation’s influence in higher education and philanthropy by advancing evaluation, cultivating partnerships and disseminating key findings.

Prior to joining ECMC Foundation, Ali was a senior consultant at Engage R+D, where she supported foundation clients to measure the impact of their grantmaking at the programmatic, community and systems level. She began her career in New York City working as a high school college counselor and youth social worker.

Ali holds a Master of Social Work from Hunter College and a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and English literature from Boston College.

Why are you working at ECMC Foundation and committed to working toward improving higher education for underserved learners?

I come from a family of educators—I have experienced firsthand the benefits of higher education, and I am grateful for the opportunity to do work every day that balances the head and the heart by using data, evaluation and strategy to advance opportunities for underserved learners.