About Us

ABOUT US
Who We Are
Higher Ed Insight (HEI) is a Certified Woman-Owned Small Business that offers services in strategic learning, evaluation, custom research, and facilitated events.
HEI’s team includes skilled applied researchers and facilitators with a range of expertise focused on improving education and workforce outcomes.
ABOUT US
Mission & Values
HEI is dedicated to helping every client become a learning organization. We believe that in order to reach your goals, you need to ask the right questions, collect data that matters, and take action informed by evidence.
HEI is guided by a set of core values:
- Grounding our work in the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Leveraging shared learning, collaboration, and the creation of growth opportunities for ourselves and our clients.
- Using an asset-based approach to build upon and emphasize the strengths of both individuals and organizations.

Our Team
Senior Project Director
Tashera Gale, PhD, serves as Senior Project Director at Higher Ed Insight. She is a passiona...
Senior Project Director
Donté McGuire, PhD, serves as Senior Project Director at Higher Ed Insight. Donté’s appr...
Principal Research Associate
Valencia Clement, Ph.D., Principal Research Associate, is a versatile Haitian-American resea...
Principal Research Associate
Chris Kirk, PhD, serves as a Principal Research Associate at Higher Ed Insight. He is passio...
Project Coordinator
As a Project Coordinator with HEI, John Archacki specializes in data collection, analysis, a...
Research Assistant
Iqra Ali is a Research Assistant at Higher Ed Insight, providing project support to the Prin...
Senior Advisor
Alisa Federico Cunningham is Senior Advisor for Policy Research at HEI. She has more than 25...
Founder & Senior Advisor
Patricia Steele, PhD, is Founder and Senior Advisor of Higher Ed Insight. She speaks, writes...








