Katherine Dawes

Katherine Dawes is the Evaluation Officer at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Since August 2020, she has work to implement the Foundations in Evidence-based Policymaking Act at EPA, particularly focused on advancing the use of program evaluation to support evidence-based decision-making. Katherine, a 33-year career civil servant with EPA, is regarded as an expert in federal program evaluation and evaluation policy. Katherine is internationally known in the evaluation community and recognized for advancing the field of environmental program evaluation and building coalitions across sectors to develop environmental program evaluation tools and promote continuous improvement. She teaches program evaluation as an Adjunct Professor at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University and is an active member of the American Evaluation Association. Katherine holds a dual Master of Public Administration and Master of Arts in Geography from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College. She lives in Washington, DC’s Union Market NE neighborhood with her husband Barry Lucas (a Professional Engineer), two children, and the family cat.