Meet the Team
Gretchen Clark Hammond,
Ph.D., MSW, LSW, LCDC III, TTS
Role: CEO
Year I Joined Mighty Crow: Est. 2011
What I Do Around Here: Focus on helping ideas take flight, supporting the work of the team, and ensuring our clients receive the highest quality service.
What Makes Me Good at My Job: I like challenges and am unfazed by complicated ideas or difficult problems in need of a solution.
Interesting Fact About Me: I had the honor of being the University of Toledo’s Outstanding Young Alumni in 2007 and was inducted into the OSU College of Social Work Hall of Fame, Class of 2020.
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Role: Co-Director of Research & Evaluation
Year I Joined Mighty Crow: 2019
What I Do Around Here: I help clients and our team think through the creation and implementation of meaningful research and evaluation plans with a heavy focus on data collection and analysis.
What Makes Me Good at My Job: I’m a social worker and a nerd. I want our work to contribute toward improvements in decision-making, projects, programs, and policies to better support our clients and the people they serve.
Interesting Fact About Me: I was born and raised in (New) Jersey. I am happy to call Columbus my new home and have gotten used to pumping my own gas, but there’s nothing quite like the Jersey shore or the food.
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Role: Co-Director of Research & Evaluation
Year I Joined Mighty Crow: 2022
What I Do Around Here: I collaborate with clients and our Mighty Crow team to create and implement research and evaluation strategies that support community impact initiatives.
What Makes Me Good at My Job: As a social worker myself, I am inspired by the tireless work of our community partners. I find it incredibly meaningful to help tell their stories of social impact and transformation through research and evaluation. To do so, I draw on my 20+ years of social-justice-oriented advocacy and research work, including diverse teaching and cultural exchange experiences in China, Turkey, Moldova, and Uganda.
Interesting Fact About Me: I’m a toe - tapping, trumpet-playing, trampoline-bouncing, taco-loving coffee drinker. I do none of those things simultaneously.
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Role: CFO & Director of IT
Year Joined Mighty Crow: Est. 2011
What I Do Around Here: Finance, technology and strategy, both internally and for our clients
What Makes Me Good at My Job: With a 20+ year career as an accomplished IT professional, entrepreneur and volunteer, I bring a broad perspective that emphasizes possibility, connection and optimism. I enjoy management and operations, where I use my two degrees in Humanities and Business to balance efficient operations with a healthy respect for our communities and culture.
Interesting Fact About Me: My passions include the arts, the outdoors, and the core belief that non-profits should operate with an entrepreneurial spirit. When I’m not working, I’m usually playing guitar, watching sports, hanging with my kids, golfing, coaching, tinkering, cooking, or wrangling our wolf pack.
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Role: Project Director
Year I Joined Mighty Crow: 2016
What I Do Around Here: I help clients track and visualize outcomes, spearhead evaluation projects, plan conferences, and provide long-term logistical and administrative support for clients as needed. I am also responsible for capacity management of the Mighty Crow team; tracking workload across team members and guaranteeing our deliverables are met.
What Makes Me Good at My Job: I have worked in human services administration and management for 15+ years, partnering with organizations of all sizes. I enjoy working on both small- and large-scale projects and building long-term relationships with clients.
Interesting Fact About Me: I always have mints to share. Some might call it a commitmint.
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Role: Project Evaluator
Year Joined Mighty Crow: 2020
What I Do Around Here: I contribute to grant writing, curriculum development, and grant evaluation.
What Makes Me Good at My Job: Over 20 years of writing and creative writing tutoring experience.
Interesting Fact About Me: I’ve had several poems published in journals around the country
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Role: Project Manager & Evaluator
Year I Joined Mighty Crow: 2021
What I Do Around Here: I help our partners with writing, training, project management, and evaluation.
What Makes Me Good at My Job: I am a pharmacist by trade and have years working in the community as both a pharmacist and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights. I care passionately about providing care to underserved populations and spent most of my pharmacy career working for the HIV/Infectious disease clinic inside of Harborview Medical Center (this is Seattle’s County hospital). I am a people person and enjoy getting involved on challenging projects and helping out. I am good at organizing and have 10 years’ experience working as a research pharmacist for the NIH and Fred Hutchinson Institute. At the end of the day, I am a person in long term recovery and feel connected to all those who struggle with their mental health and substance use.
Interesting Fact About Me: I grew up in rural northeast Ohio (Berlin Center) but after graduating from the University of Toledo I moved to Seattle and lived there for 21 years.
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Role: Communications Strategist
Year I Joined Mighty Crow: 2023
What I Do Around Here: Project management and marketing-focused projects with Mighty Crow clients. I am also working on Mighty Crow's public facing messaging including web and social media.
What Makes Me Good at My Job: I have over 20 years of experience in marketing communications, including 15 years as the owner of an independent marketing consultancy.
Interesting Fact About Me: I started my professional career after college working in radio, and still dabble in voice over work periodically.
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Role: Research and City Planning Associate
Year I Joined Mighty Crow: 2023
What I Do Around Here: I work with the other incredibly talented Mighty Crow team members to write grants and I utilize GIS to prepare maps for clients to be used in grant applications and programmatic evaluations.
What Makes Me Good at My Job: I recently graduated from the Ohio State University with a Master’s in City and Regional Planning which has taught me a lot about city planning theories and policies as well as how to be a GIS guru. I am also skilled at developing written narratives for grants and my writing style has been described as “sublime” by a certain Mother Crow; I love challenging myself to write creative and eloquent narratives that communicate important information in an engaging and intriguing way.
Interesting Fact About Me: I worked as a farmhand before I started graduate school where I learned how to operate large machinery like bulldozers and excavators. If you need any pesky buildings or highways removed in your area, give me a call!
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Role: Data Scientist
Year I Joined Mighty Crow: 2023
What I Do Around Here: Utilizing a background in business and product analytics, I help to leverage advanced statistical analysis and modeling techniques to expedite evaluation processes and improve upon program practices.
What Makes Me Good at My Job: With an academic background in pure mathematics and data science, I possess a strong understanding and appreciation of the hidden connections that drive everyday activities and processes. I take pleasure in unravelling these puzzles and using them to develop fresh approaches and models to enhance current systems.
Interesting Fact About Me: Before my career in data science, my plan was to pursue environmental science. With this goal in mind, I worked for a period as a wild land firefighter in the Pacific Northwest, where I focused on suppressing wildfires on the JBLM wildland and worked alongside a team of biologists in prairie restoration efforts. This was some hard, fun work!
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Role: Research Assistant
Year I Joined Mighty Crow: 2023
What I Do Around Here: I support project leads with research tasks like literature review, report and manuscript drafting, data analysis and more.
What Makes Me Good at My Job: I am passionate about social change, a problem solver, and an idea person. I am currently a PhD student at the Ohio State University College of Social Work where I am honing my research skills and fostering my love of learning.
Interesting Fact About Me: When I am not diving into data or literature, I enjoy spending time with my family, yoga, hiking, running and making art.
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Role: Executive Assistant
Year Joined Mighty Crow: 2023
What I Do Around Here: I am the Executive Assistant to Mighty Crow’s CEO.
What Makes Me Good at My Job: Attention to detail and being able to multi-task.
Interesting Fact About Me: I teach Yoga and Pilates.