Experience

Engage R+D

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Jan 2019 - Present



Harder+Company Community Research

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Research Consultant

  • Jul 2013 - Present

  Giannina is an accomplished researcher with a longstanding commitment to helping community organizations better understand their capacity and impact. She is particularly skilled at approaches that support complex, systems or community-based innovations (such as developmental evaluation) and using culturally and developmentally appropriate methods to engage a diverse stakeholders (such as community-based participatory research methods). Giannina balances this interest in innovation with strong technical expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research methods, ethnographic observations, outcome monitoring, design and implementation of surveys and focus groups, logic model and theory of change development, and group facilitation. Giannina is fluent in Spanish.Prior to joining Harder+Company in 2013, Giannina was an evaluator for The Detroit Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Action Research Project at Michigan State University. She also worked at the Michigan Department of Community Health to assess the capacity of its grantees to provide HIV interventions. Previously, Giannina was a research assistant at the Los Angeles Unified School District. Giannina has published multiple articles about sexual assault and mental health in peer-reviewed journals like City and Community, the American Journal of Community Psychology, and Psychology of Women Quarterly. During her free time, Giannina enjoys cooking Italian and Peruvian food, going to the beach, and spending quality time with her family.



Wayne County Prosecutor's Office

• Evaluation consultant

  • Mar 2011 - Jun 2013

  Evaluation consultant in an action research project (funded by the National Institute of Justice) investigating the cause of rape kit backlogs in Detroit. In collaboration with police, crime lab, advocacy and prosecutor stakeholder groups, the goal of this project is create systemic change and develop strategies to prevent future backlogs. Evaluation consultant in an action research project (funded by the National Institute of Justice) investigating the cause of rape kit backlogs in Detroit. In collaboration with police, crime lab, advocacy and prosecutor stakeholder groups, the goal of this project is create systemic change and develop strategies to prevent future backlogs.