Emily Klukas, MPH, former Deputy Director of Research and Evaluation at the Latino Commission on AIDS. In this role, she oversees internal program evaluation, research studies and collaborations, education and training of interns, and disseminating research and assessment findings to the community at large. She earned her B.S. in Child Psychology from the University of Minnesota and continued her education as a “21st Century Scholar” at New York University receiving her M.P.H. in International Community Public Health. Over the past eleven years, she has worked on a wide range of research and evaluation projects. In the past, she has worked and lived abroad in Asia; and in her free time enjoys cooking, writing, snowboarding and fishing.