Daniela Torre Gibney, Ph.D., is a senior associate partner at Bellwether in the Policy and Evaluation practice area.  

Daniela helps lead Bellwether’s Evaluation team to provide data analysis and insights that drive continuous improvement to educational organizations across the country. She is an expert at designing and implementing complex mixed-methods evaluations and research projects as well as working with organizational leaders to build evaluation capacity. 

Over the last decade, Daniela has designed and led projects that use quasi-experimental, correlational, descriptive, and qualitative methods. While she has extensive expertise in evaluating programs and initiatives that span the pre-K through postsecondary pipeline, Daniela is most passionate about supporting programs and informing policies that improve teaching and school quality — particularly for multilingual learners and marginalized students. 

Prior to joining Bellwether, Daniela worked at SRI International, where she led foundation- and federally-funded evaluations that assessed the implementation and impact of educational programs, teacher preparation reforms, and professional development initiatives in schools, districts, CMOs, and institutions of higher education. She began her career as an educator working in bilingual, English as a second language, and general education classrooms for five years in the District of Columbia and Brooklyn, New York. 

Daniela received a doctorate in leadership and policy studies from Vanderbilt University and a master’s degree in teaching English to speakers of other languages from American University. 

Why I do this work:

My parents always told me that they came to the U.S. from Argentina for work, but stayed so that my siblings and I could access an excellent education. I’ve learned through my experiences as a student, teacher, and researcher that an excellent education is out of reach for too many students, and I do this work to help build a system where schools reduce rather than reproduce inequality.

Experience at Bellwether:

Program Evaluation / Evaluation Capacity-Building; Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis; Survey Research; Data Collection and Analysis; Teacher Evaluation and Development Systems; Performance Metrics; Artificial Intelligence; CMO / Charter School Operators; District Schools; Foundations

Issue expertise:

Charter Schools; State Education Policy; Teacher and School Leader Quality; Urban Education

Client segments served:

Early Childhood; K-12 Schools; Postsecondary / Higher Education; School Districts; CMO / Charter Schools; State Education Agencies; Product and Service Providers; Foundations and Grantees; Nonprofit Organizations

Sample Clients:

Collegiate Academies (Louisiana), Columbia College (South Carolina), InsideTrack, UNCF, NewSchools, Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning, Hall Family Foundation, Rocketship Public Schools, Wisconsin, Utah Department of Education