Nancy Koester, M.S.

Title: Research Manager

Program: Community Research Institute

Bio

Nancy Koester is a research manager at the Community Research Institute. She conducts applied social research and evaluations for community based agencies.

She comes to CRI from the University of Colorado Denver where she was an evaluator for Colorado WIN Partners. She conducted evaluations for federal and state level initiatives primarily focusing on programs that assist people with disabilities in obtaining employment and/or increasing their independence.

Nancy has been developing and evaluating community based programs for more than 15 years. She completed her graduate work in organizational and community psychology and statistics at North Carolina State University with training in both qualitative and quantitative research methods.