Our Associates Our multidisciplinary staff bring unique and diverse experiences to each project. Working individually or as a team, our staff offer specific topical expertise and a range of process and organizational skills to meet a wide variety of project requirements. We have all worked in many different organizational settings before joining Clegg & Associates, e.g., various types of government agencies, as staff and on the boards of nonprofit agencies. We bring a deep understanding of organizational environments and their particular management, capacity, and philosophical concerns.
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Judith Clegg, President Master of Social Work, 1976 - University of Washington; Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, 1972 - Mills College, Oakland, CaliforniaJudith Clegg has been providing leadership on housing and homelessness, human services, and health care consulting projects since 1986. A skilled project leader, Ms. Clegg prides herself on working closely with clients to ensure that all projects adhere to the highest quality standards, are completed on time, and remain within the available budget. Ms. Clegg is best known for her facilitation of complex system design project that encompass research, strategic planning and evaluation tasks. Her involvement in the development of community-based and jurisdiction-level plans to address affordable housing and homelessness extend to her role as the facilitator for a variety of processes related to housing and substance abuse, housing and mental illness, housing and domestic violence, and housing and HIV/AIDS. She has a long history of involvement with local and regional organizations and has provided facilitation for a number of their strategic planning and organizational development processes. In the years prior to establishing her consulting practice in 1986, Ms. Clegg held key planning and management positions with the King County Budget Office, the City of Seattle Department of Human Resources, and Family Services of King County. She has remained involved in the community throughout her career, and has served on the board of the Northwest AIDS Foundation. Dawn Hanson Smart, Senior Associate Master of Science in Health Education, 1981 - University of Washington; Bachelor of Arts, Urban Planning and Community Services, 1973 - Antioch CollegeDawn Hanson Smart has more than 25 years of experience in planning and evaluation. She has extensive background with nonprofits and local and state government groups. Ms. Smart has guided many organizations through strategic planning, priority-setting, and significant change processes. She has particular expertise in the area of participatory evaluation and performance measurement, conducting a number of projects with nonprofit organizations and their funders in the fields of arts, education, housing, family support, youth development, civic participation, and social justice. Ms. Smart focuses as well on evaluation capacity-building for nonprofit organizations. In addition to her role as trainer for The Evaluation Forum, she is one of a small group of consultants providing training and coaching for community development organizations using Success Measures, an online evaluation process housed at NeighborWorks America and is one of six trainers providing United Way of America’s outcome measurement training for local United Ways throughout the country. Beka Smith, Research Associate Master of Arts, History, 2002 - Portland State University; Bachelor of Arts, History, 1997 - Bates CollegeMs. Smith joined Clegg & Associates in 2005, bringing research, writing, and analytical experience from the nonprofit and public sectors. Her work has focused on housing, health, environmental, and historical issues. As a Research Associate at Clegg & Associates, she coordinates research on projects, collects information from various sources, analyzes data, writes reports, creates research summaries, and prepares a range of other documents. Ms. Smith is a former program analyst with AIDS Housing of Washington (AHW). While at AHW, she contributed to community plans for AIDS housing and projects addressing homeless, multiply-diagnosed, and post-incarcerated populations. Previously, she has worked for the Oregon Historical Society, Portland State University, and the City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services. Rebecca Rohman, Business Manager Graduate of Yakima Business College, WA - 1986Ms. Rohman is our current business manager and manages all of our accounts receivable, accounts payable, benefits and payroll, and independent contractor, client and vendor contracts.
She presently works independently for several clients. Prior to becoming an independent business manager in 2003, Ms. Rohman was employed as an accountant for local Puget Sound area businesses.
Ms. Rohman's duck tolling retriever, Lucy, occasionally holds office hours at Clegg & Associates as well. Irving Sambolin, Administrative Associate Bachelor of Arts, Theology, Philosophy minor, 1985 - Fordham University, The Bronx, NYMr. Sambolin joined Clegg & Associates in 2007 to provide administrative and technical support. His skills in writing, copy editing, and graphic design are instrumental in producing project tools, surveys, meeting materials and reports. He maintains our website and computer systems. Mr. Sambolin began as a research correspondent on Wall Street. He took part in the planning meeting for the ACT-UP die-in at the NY Stock Exchange, and in 1990, he left NYC to begin a career of AIDS activism in the center of the Pandemic. He worked for two projects of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in HIV/AIDS research and care and for 18th Street Services, now New Leaf, providers of substance abuse counseling and HIV prevention education. Working for Mobilization Against AIDS, he was the grantor and compliance monitor for the 1996 AIDS Dance-a-thon in San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, hosted by Queen Latifah, which raised over $1.6 million in grants to community-based organizations. That same year, Mr. Sambolin made it to the Emerald City and has worked as a master gardener, catering manager, and webstore manager. He is currently pursuing his interest in graphic design.
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