About

Ready to inspire your staff or faculty to learn and lead?

My clients include school districts, city departments, colleges, and non-profits, for whom I provide a wide range of professional development services – from workshops to retreats to training-of-trainers, conferences, and institutes. I love employing the principles of participant-centered, transformational facilitation to support individuals and agencies in developing and reaching their goals! 

When you think of the words “professional development” or “meeting”,

do you see this….

business people sleeping on desks

or this?

people engaged in a hands-on game

 If you want the clients, students, or stake-holders that you work with to:

  • develop critical thinking skills,
  • take ownership of their own learning and behavior, and
  • exhibit leadership and community-mindedness

Then the professional development, meetings, conference, and programs that you offer to your staff and communities must reflect these values.

“Eva is awesome!  She is very quick to understand her assignments, is creative in her approach, hits all her deadlines and follows up thoroughly, works independently and checks in regularly, and gets along quickly and easily with a wide variety of people – in short, a pleasure to work with.  Her reputation across the Bay Area will confirm that opinion.”
Katie Brackenridge, Sr. Director,
Expanded Learning Initiatives,
Partnership for Children and Youth

MY APPROACH

My philosophy in adult learning is built on three founding principles:

  1. The knowledge is already in the room.
  2. People learn best and achieve their best work when they are active through doing and talking with others.
  3. The professional development opportunity, meeting, or interaction itself must be a model for the behavioral change or knowledge participants will walk away with.

I ascribe to the core belief that the concept of an “expert” presenting a room full of “participants” with knowledge or ideas about how things should run is not inline with what we know about how people learn and thrive – because it isn’t. And yet, the “expert” and “boss” models are still all too ubiquitous.

They don’t have to be.

  • Are you ready to change the way you run your organization, meetings, or provide professional development for your staff, educators, or stakeholders?
  • Are you ready to recharge and revitalize your workforce?
  • Are you ready to improve the quality of the education and/or services offered to those you serve?

Then let’s talk!

Eva laughing wearing a black tshirt that reads Today is a great day to learn something new

CAREER

Over the course of my career I have held positions as a bilingual (Spanish) classroom teacher, as an Education Director with the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco, and as a Fulbright Scholar in Thailand, studying the influences of culture on pedagogy. I recently spent a year teaching English and American Culture to education students at Yangtze Normal University in Chongqing, China and worked for six years administering afterschool programs for the San Francisco Unified School District. I have completed training in both ToP facilitation methods and Intergroup Dialogue.

EDUCATION

I hold a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts with a concentration in Social Activism, a master’s in Humanities and Leadership, and a CA K-12 teaching credential in Art.

CLIENT LIST

Partial client list includes the following organizations, (references available upon request):

  • San Francisco Unified School District
  • Oakland Unified School District
  • Hayward Unified School District
  • West Contra Costa Unified School District and Public Education Fund
  • College of Marin
  • San Francisco Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families
  • East Bay Collaborative for Underserved Children (UC Berkeley)
  • Bay Area Community Resources
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco
  • Partnership for Children and Youth
  • Stanislaus County Office of Education
  • Alameda County Office of Education
“Eva is awesome!  She is very quick to understand her assignments, is creative in her approach, hits all her deadlines and follows up thoroughly, works independently and checks in regularly, and gets along quickly and easily with a wide variety of people – in short, a pleasure to work with.  Her reputation across the Bay Area will confirm that opinion.”
Katie Brackenridge, Sr. Director,
Expanded Learning Initiatives,
Partnership for Children and Youth