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Fostering high quality equitable education is a collaborative process. 

We amplify the voices of all stakeholders in this change process. 

We help organize those voices into developing evidence that drives and documents change.

We learn and bring that knowledge forward. 

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Rebecca Zarch

Executive Director

Rebecca Zarch has spent 20 years evaluating projects supporting young adults moving through the STEM pathways and workforce development projects. She particularly loves equity-driven projects, those ...

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Joyce Wang

Lead Evaluator

Joyce is the newest addition to the SageFox team. She has 15 years of experience in higher education and brings her expertise in grant development and program implementation. Joyce has...

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Jordan Esiason

Data Maestro

Jordan Esiason joined SageFox as a Research Assistant in 2018 while completing degrees for his two passions in Mathematics and Music Composition at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and graduat...

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Mika Hurd

Project Support Specialist

Mika graduated from Umass Amherst (2022), where they earned a B.A. in Early Childhood Education prek-2 and a B.A. in Sociology. They joined the SageFox team in 2022. Prior to joining sagefox, they did...

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Levi McGorty

Administrative Support

Levi joined SageFox in October of 2024. She enjoys practicing printmaking, digital illustration, & photography. She has a special interest in finding ways to visually organize data in art. Her works u...

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Alan Peterfreund

Senior Director

Alan Peterfreund, Ph.D., has 36 years of experience as a consultant, evaluator and researcher for clients in the public and private sectors of business, government and education. Dr. Peterfreund has a...

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Emily DeHaro-Otero

Office Manager

Emily Deharo-Otero is our Office Manager and has been at SageFox since 2013. She graduated from Westfield State University as a Math major and has worked in banking as well as the public school system...

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Shannon Lei

Evaluator & Data Analyst

Shannon Lei started at Sagefox in the Winter of 2023. She enjoys talking about all things data to tell a good story. She believes that data is a powerful tool that can be used to improve educational s...

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Talia Goldwasser

Project Support Specialist

Talia joined SageFox in February of 2023 as a research assistant. She got her B.A. in Mathematics from Smith College, with a minor in Computer Science. While at Smith, she conducted research in geomet...

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Tyler Clark

Sr Evaluator & Data Analyst

Dr. Tyler Clark is a Senior Data Analyst and Evaluator with a profound passion for research, evaluation, and education who joined Sage Fox in 2023. Her background in STEM education projects and extens...

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Brianna Johnston

Communications Specialist

Brianna Johnston joined the SageFox team in 2014 as an office administrator but her position has evolved into design work and formatting for the team, project management, and a variety of other tasks....

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Mike Chery-Winder

Evaluator & Data Analyst

Mike Chery-Winder has been a Data Analyst at Sagefox since 2023. He completed a Masters in Physics from the University of Connecticut in 2016 with a focus in Astrophysics. During the 2020 COVID pandem...

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Fatima Toure

Project Support Specialist

Fatima is a second-year honors student at Boston University who recently joined SageFox this Fall of 2024 as a research assistant. Fatima is currently studying Political Science with a Minor in Public...

A Man With an Idea

"A Man With an Idea" - Photograph by Lynn Peterfreund

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