Our multi-disciplinary core staff
Amy Powers, Principal and Co-Founder
Education: M.S. in Environmental Administration, Antioch; B.A. in Environmental Studies & Spanish, Bates College.
Home: Past two decades in a domehome in Vermont; originally from Long Island.
Work: 20 years as an evaluator after nearly a decade teaching EE; my motivation is helping our world become more just and sustainable.
Outside interests: Spending time with family; growing food; smashing stuff to make mosaics; trail running; nordic skiing.
Fun fact: I enjoy napping more than I should (I guess that's actually a 'boring fact').
Michael Duffin, Principal and Co-Founder
Education: Ph.D. in Leadership and Organizational Change, Antioch University; M.S. in Environmental Education, Antioch New England; B.A. in Physics and Music, Whitman College.
Home: Grew up in the Pacific Northwest, happily settled in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire for over 20 years.
Work: I love the way evaluation straddles academia and practice.
Outside interests: Community theater, tennis, soccer, hiking (finished PCT in 2017).
Fun fact: My home office is 25 feet up in an oak tree.
Andrew Powers, Senior Research Associate, Finance Director, and Co-Founder
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, CU Boulder (I like to figure out how things work!).
Home: Fled the dry hills of California for the Green Mountains of Vermont.
Work: Fifteen years as jack-of-all-trades for PEER, always trying to find a framework to unpack complex issues (messes CAN become useful spreadsheets!).
Outside interests: Building, tinkering, backcountry skiing.
Fun fact: I've never met a cheese I didn't like.
“By far the greatest strength I see in working with PEER is the high degree of interactivity they maintain with clients.”