Dr. Mindelyn Anderson currently serves as the Program Director of the Masters of Science in Measurement and Evaluation at American University and is the founder of Mirror Group LLC and. Most recently, she completed a Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) Fellowship at the
Annie E. Casey Foundation. Her previous higher education appointments include Honors Faculty in Residence and Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northeastern University and Marilyn Yarbrough Fellow at Kenyon College. Dr. Anderson has also held
fellowships at American Institutes for Research and Mathematica Policy Research.

For 15 years, Dr. Anderson has researched social inequality and stratification, race and migration, education and social mobility. She has conducted evaluations with community-based, regional, national and international non-profit, for-profit, and educational organizations. Her utilization-focused, participatory evaluation practice is informed by Culturally-Responsive Evaluation and values diversity, equity, and inclusion as integral components of high quality evaluation. Her scholarship has been supported by sponsors including the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities.