Leigh Rauk

Dr. Leigh Rauk is an assistant research scientist with the Program Evaluation Group (PEG). She specializes in participatory and collaborative approaches to community-based research and evaluation with a utilization focus. She received her PhD in Community Well-Being from the University of Miami in 2021. In 2022, Rauk completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the U-M Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, where her research focused on the intersections of school safety and firearm violence. Her work has spanned a variety of topic areas including workforce and nonprofit organizational development, youth development, and community well-being. She has extensive experience building partnerships with community organizations, designing and leading mixed-methods evaluation studies, logic modeling and theory of change development, and facilitating organizational learning and capacity building. She currently serves as the lead evaluator for several PEG projects.