Christine Baker Ph.D is senior director, evaluation and learning for the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland.

Christine works with staff, grantees, and community members to cultivate understanding of foundation strategic initiatives and grantmaking to inform how to make the best use of foundation assets. She is committed to transforming the foundation’s evaluation and evaluative thinking practices by building relationships with community, funders, and other peers to co-learn and advance equitable evaluation approaches together.

While at the foundation, Christine has expanded its data collection and analysis capabilities by overseeing the conversion to an online grants management system. She served as co-lead of Grantmakers for Effective Organization’s Strategic Learners Network in 2022 and co-founded Philanthropy Ohio’s evaluation peer learning community. Since 2019, she has led staff participation in the Equitable Evaluation Initiative, a national endeavor seeking to seed a field of practitioners of the Equitable Evaluation Framework™.

Christine brings more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit management, administration and evaluation capacity building and has held lectureships at Cleveland State University and John Carroll University. She has a BA from Northwestern University and an MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art History and Theory, and she earned her PhD in Urban Education with a specialization in Policy Studies from Cleveland State University.