Jessica now serves as Co-Vice President of Success Measures, leading the enterprise in partnership with Lynne Wallace. They guide the strategic vision and operations of Success Measures, ensuring the team continues to advance its mission by providing rigorous, community-centered evaluation and learning practices across the broad community development field.

A trained cultural anthropologist, Jessica brings extensive experience in participatory and mixed-method evaluations that incorporate diverse perspectives for collective insight. She directs tailored consulting evaluation projects and strategic learning engagements for national and regional funders, intermediaries, and funding collaboratives. She also oversees the research, development, and testing of evaluation frameworks and tools across multiple issue areas. These areas include financial capability, community engagement, health and healthy communities, and creative community development.

Before joining NeighborWorks, Jessica served as a research associate at the McAuley Institute. She also worked as a program coordinator at the Community Partnership Center at University of Tennessee directing the Participatory Research and Planning Program and as director of the Community Outreach Partnership Center at University of Florida. She holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College and an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Florida.

Lynne Wallace now serves as Co-Vice President of Success Measures, co-leading the enterprise alongside Jessica Anders-Mulcahy. Together, they guide the strategic direction, operations and growth of Success Measures, advancing its mission to provide rigorous, community-centered evaluation and learning services to the broad community development field.

Since joining Success Measures in 2019, Lynne has led external relations, business strategy and partnership development. She directs efforts to secure clients for Success Measures’ evaluation and learning services as well as funders for enterprise resources and special initiatives. She also oversees the business operations team and is responsible for financial management, marketing and communications, procurement and administrative functions.

Prior to joining NeighborWorks America, Lynne served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Way Finders, Inc., a NeighborWorks network organization in Springfield, MA, where she oversaw six lines of business in housing and community development. Earlier in her career, she was Vice President for Business Development and Operations at Dietz & Company Architects. Lynne holds a B.S. from Springfield College and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts.

In 2025, Arturo (Art) Garcia Jr. joined Success Measures to direct and lead learning and evaluation consulting, technical assistance services and strategic thinking efforts. Art brings 19 years of experience in research, evaluation and learning with community-based organizations, foundations, intermediaries and other nonprofits.

He previously served as the Interim Co-Director for the Strategic Learning, Research & Evaluation team at the Kresge Foundation, a private national foundation based in Detroit, MI that expands opportunities in American cities through grantmaking and social investing. Art facilitated learning and evaluation at the foundation by developing and refining strategies with program teams and fostering cross-team collaboration.

Prior to working at the Kresge Foundation, Art worked at First 5 Los Angeles, where he collaborated across the organization to lead individual, group and organizational learning and strategy adjustment as the Learning Manager.

He holds a B.A. in Biology and B.S. in Public Health from California State University San Bernardino and a Master of Public Health from the University of California Los Angeles.

Lana Jacobus joined Success Measures in 2024 to develop and execute communication initiatives for the social enterprise’s stakeholders, potential new audiences and the field. She conceives and develops content for newsletters, articles, web pages, and other digital and print media platforms. She also supports the team through overseeing the editorial aspects of client products and by collaborating on communications strategy, materials and data for the business development efforts.

Prior to joining Success Measures, Lana was the Development Specialist at Grantmakers In Health, where she supported fundraising initiatives through relationship building and producing marketing collateral on health philanthropy news and resources. She also served as the Community Relations Coordinator at the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing and Communications Specialist at the Washington State Housing Finance Commission.

Lana received her B.S. in General Biology from the University of Washington.

Joining Success Measures in 2024, Katie is managing the team’s portfolio of evaluation and learning strategy services for philanthropic clients and their grantees who are addressing housing, building healthy communities and other place-based challenges through innovative programs. In this role, she leads the coordination and implementation of creative and emergent evaluation and learning processes including strategic project management, data collection, analysis and communication.

Before joining Success Measures, Katie served as Manager of Operations at the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis and managed financial capability and empowerment programs in several previous positions. Katie has a B.A. in Sociology/Women’s and Gender Studies from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Master of Social Work from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.

Rebecca joined Success Measures in 2025 to advance evaluation and learning for community-based and philanthropic organizations focused on community development and other place-based initiatives. She leads participatory evaluation consulting and technical assistance projects.

Rebecca brings ten years of experience in planning, managing and carrying out mixed methods evaluation and research projects, including more than seven years of experience supporting government agencies, foundations and nonprofits as a researcher at Mathematica. She specializes in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis of programs designed to support families as well as providing technical assistance to help programs improve.

Before Mathematica, Rebecca worked in the nonprofit sector providing direct client services that addressed local housing, health and workforce needs. Her experience in and deep knowledge of social service programs and systems informs her work with community-based organizations solving evaluation challenges.

Rebecca holds a B.A. with honors in Sociology and Anthropology from Washington and Lee University and a Master of Arts with honors in Public Policy from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

Hasib joined Success Measures in 2021 to manage the business and financial analysis, planning, budgeting and reporting for the Success Measures enterprise. He brings to the team significant experience in managerial accounting and oversight of financial operations.

Before joining NeighborWorks, Hasib served as Senior Financial Analyst for Family Health International and as a Budget Analyst and Accountant for the U.S. State Department. He received his B.A. in Business Administration from Kardan University, Kabul, Afghanistan, and a Master of Business Administration from University of Massachusetts.

Tenia has been with NeighborWorks America for over 18 years, bringing extensive project and budget management experience from working across multiple divisions. In 2020, she joined the Success Measures team. As Senior Manager, Program Services for Success Measures, Tenia leads and implements the administrative and business management systems that support the social enterprise’s operations. She works with internal and external partners to ensure efficient coordination of payments, contracts and other administrative processes.

Tenia’s prior experience at NeighborWorks America includes Senior Coordinator in the Training Division and Senior Assistant to the SVP/Controller in Finance. She is a Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) and is currently working toward a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration through the University of Maryland.