President

Zachariah Rabah (he/e) is the Founder and President of Emergent Evaluation Consulting. Zachariah has evaluation consulting experience with non-profits and public agencies and has curated publications on participatory evaluation. His professional approach to evaluation utilizes a philosophy of evaluation for social change through a developmental evaluation framework. Zachariah uses evaluation to provide data and information for organizational learning and social transformation.

Zachariah’s work focused on developing and implementing mixed-methods evaluations focused on advocacy, social justice, public health, education and systems change. He has curated publications for fellow evaluators that offer virtual adaptations to popular participatory evaluation methods and moderated panel discussions on evaluation topics. His previous work includes serving as a Senior Evaluation Associate at Creative Research Solutions, an advocacy and civic engagement specialist at the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, a program analyst at United Way Bay Area, an organizational development assistant at Hamai Consulting, and an instructor of participatory evaluation methods to managers of New York City public agencies. 

He has provided thought leadership and strategic planning for organizations working to uplift Black, Indigenous, Latin(e), Asian and Arab voices, including projects for youth reimagining after school programs, universities working to improve their campus climate, workforce training programs for social work graduate students, and cross-county regional home visiting coordination. Zachariah has frontline racial justice  community organizing experience that includes campaign-building, facilitating community workshops and teach-ins, speaking on and moderating scholar-activist panels and roundtables, leading delegations, and organizing conferences and actions. He has presented at several conferences, including the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) and the American Evaluation Association (AEA), on topics such as data justice, Indigenous data sovereignty, and Culturally Responsive Equitable Evaluation (CREE) theory, design and methods. He sits on the Advisory Board of DonkeySaddle Projects and is a member of the AEA’s Systems in Evaluation, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, and Independent Consulting topical interest groups. 

Zachariah holds a Master of Science degree in Measurement and Evaluation and a Master of Arts degree in International Relations from the American University, Washington D.C. He received a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from San Francisco State University. He has spoken in universities, panels, teach-ins, and community events on social justice issues, and has campaign-building, advocacy and civic engagement experience countering hate and violence against marginalized communities.