Evangeline has 20 years of experience in evaluation and research, and is a credentialed evaluator from the Canadian Evaluation Society. She is currently the director of the support services team (also known as the evaluation and research team) at the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Her work focuses on building capacity for evaluation and implementation using organizational learning approaches as a cornerstone for evidence-informed practices in the non-profit sector.

Prior to working at the Centre, she worked on the evaluation of evidence-informed innovations at the Nursing Best Practices Research Centre at the University of Ottawa, and on performance indicators at Accreditation Canada. She has worked on various clinical research projects involving children and families such as homelessness, developmental disabilities, pre-natal cocaine exposure and childhood injuries in the Washington, DC, Costa Rica and the Philippines.

A recipient of the Fulbright scholarship, Evangeline obtained her masters degree in developmental psychology from The George Washington University at Washington, DC, and her doctoral degree in Applied Developmental Psychology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.