Kasi Allen

Vice President of Learning and Impact

Learning and Impact
Roseburg
She/Her

“We’re entering a new era — Ford Family has a real opportunity to ensure our strategies lead to the results our rural kids and communities need. Working alongside our neighbors, leveraging the unique assets of this region, we know we can get there together.”

As the first Vice President of Learning and Impact at the Foundation, Kasi leads research and evaluation, organizational learning, strategy development and measurement, and the production of high-quality rural data and knowledge — all in service of rural kids and communities. She brings more than two decades of experience as a professor, researcher and evaluator to her role.

Since joining the Foundation in 2017, Kasi built strategy around data visualization and storytelling, as well as an organization-wide culture of learning. She led the teams that launched the popular Oregon by the Numbers annual data report and the innovative Oregon Voices survey, which captures the lived experiences of residents in every corner of the state.

Kasi’s passion for rural started in the mountains of Northern California and Southern Oregon. She spent her K-12 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, but moved to Oregon more than 30 years ago, where she has family ties dating back to the 1800s. Her years in the classroom have given her a teacher’s heart that is reflected in how she engages others. Her years as a program evaluator studying the National Science Foundation’s education investments took her from Alaska to Appalachia and taught her a lot about the diversity of rural.

Anyone who knows Kasi well also knows her love of mathematics, joy in facilitation, and eye for equity. She speaks enthusiastically about using data for visualization and storytelling as well as the power of community building to achieve the future that rural residents want to see.

Kasi holds a Ph.D. degree in Educational Policy and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and its History, both from Stanford University.

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