Meet the team of dedicated YEN staff working to create a healthier world for young people.
Kristin Kennedy
Kristin Kennedy, MS, MPH, CPH, has over 10 years of project coordination and program management experience in sexual and reproductive health, particularly HIV and STI prevention and treatment for queer and trans youth of color in the South. Her experiences include community engagement, strategic planning and grant writing, program planning and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, training development, and research coordination.
Kristin holds her MPH in Public Health Administration from University of South Florida, as well as an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and BS in Psychology from University of North Florida.
Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson, PhD (she/her/hers) is the Principal Investigator and Project Director for the Youth Engagement Network. In this role, she is responsible for the overall leadership of the project. Dr. Anderson has over 20 years of experience working at the intersection between positive youth development and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. She has extensive experience in leading large rigorous evaluation studies, developing adolescent digital health interventions, and managing large multi-site teams.
Pam Drake
Pam Drake, PhD (she/her/hers) is a Senior Research Scientist at ETR and combines her love of evaluation with her desire to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. She has over 20 years of experience at ETR and oversees ETR’s evaluation work, as well as directs numerous health-focused evaluations, many in the area of teen sexual and reproductive health. Dr. Drake is the Evaluation Director for YEN.
Deeqa Mohamed
Deeqa Mohamed is a global and public health professional with a deep commitment to health equity. Since joining ETR, she has been learning program evaluation methods and more recently, how to make evaluation equity-centered. As a part of the YEN Evaluation team, her focus is on continuous quality improvement (CQI). Deeqa aims to use these skills to help YEN and other youth-led programs improve the ways they collaborate with and serve BIPOC youth.
Carly Raasch
Carly Raasch (She/Her/Hers) provides evaluation support to the YEN partners, including assistance in identifying measures for youth engagement, methods for collecting meaningful data, and other evaluation or reporting needs. Her professional experience includes 10 years in research, evaluation, and communication fields. She has helped several youth-partnering organizations identify best practices for evaluating work with youth
Stephanie Guinosso
Stephanie Guinosso, PhD (she/her/hers) is a Senior Research Associate at ETR and leads applied research on the implementation of trauma-informed and healing-centered policies and practices within schools and other youth-serving organizations. In her role as a Senior Content Specialist for the YEN, she oversees the development and implementation of ETR’s Trauma-Informed Youth-Centered Health Design and leads the YEN Network Committee to explore the intersection of trauma-informed and healing-centered practices with youth engagement in sexual and reproductive health.
Azzia Roberts
Azzia Roberts, MPH, CHES (She/Her/Hers), is the Network Learning & Engagement Specialist of the Youth Engagement Network. In this role, she provides overall network coordination, including Technical Assistance & Professional Development requests and Network Committee development & implementation. Her professional background includes 6 years of experience in coordinating multidisciplinary health education and health care teams, with the last 3 years focused specifically on improving adolescent health care quality and access across the country.