Lisa Crabtree, MA

Senior Evaluation Researcher, KIP Survey Project Director, and Team Steward for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

email: Lisa@reacheval.com

Lisa Crabtree, M.A. is a Senior Evaluation Researcher at REACH Evaluation. She directs the biennial Kentucky Incentives for Prevention (KIP) Youth Survey, the state’s largest source of data related to adolescent behavioral health and social and emotional wellbeing. Alongside her colleague Dr. Shireen Deobhakta, Lisa also serves as REACH’s Team Steward for Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Inclusion and Belonging.

She designs and implements all aspects of various program evaluations, including: creating data collection instruments, constructing logic models, managing survey research, conducting key informant interviews, facilitating focus groups and analyzing and reporting data. Her current primary projects include initiatives throughout Kentucky, with efforts variously focused on: establishing a statewide support system within schools and communities to build resilience and support for military-connected youth; the development of community-based substance misuse prevention resources and programming; and promoting awareness, access, and action around mental health needs and services.

Lisa earned bachelor’s degrees in psychology and English at Bellarmine University, and studied Intercultural Communications and completed her minor thesis at Växjö University in Växjö, Sweden. During master’s coursework in sociology at the University of Louisville she concentrated on social determinants of inequity, distress, and grief.

Lisa serves on Kentucky’s Eating Disorder Council, the steering committee of Highlands Youth Recreation, and as a parent leader for Bloom Elementary’s awesome Quick Recall team. She loves public radio, documentaries, running, biographies, Antiques Roadshow, and most of all, hanging out with her husband Kyle, their son Will, and daughter Nina.