ASEC: Our Team

Tara Lopatofsky, PhD, CCLS

Areas of Expertise: human development, sociology, elementary & special education, program evaluation

Tara is the Program Manager, Monitoring & Evaluation for ASEC's Research, HESA & Scholarship programs.

Tara Lopatofsky is the Senior Program Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation, at ASEC, based in Scranton, PA, United States. She earned her doctorate in administration and leadership with an emphasis in health promotion from Marywood University in 2019. Her dissertation was titled, The Perceived Impact of Post-Secondary Education on Kenyan Catholic Sisters’ Understanding of Their Lives as Women Religious: A Case Study.

She also holds a Master’s of Education in Special and Elementary Education and a Bachelor of Science in Human Development with a minor in sociology, from Arizona State University. Tara began working at ASEC in 2017.

In her work at ASEC, she oversees all of ASEC’s program evaluations, ensures accurate data collection and analysis, and manages ASEC’s research initiative.

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Contributions

• Founding Mothers: Detailing ASEC’s Founding (Author)
• Scholarship 2024 Year in Review (Author)
• Little Girl, I Say to You, Rise Up; Igniting Hope for Human Trafficking Survivors (Author)
• Creating Impact: ASEC Alumnae Impact on Beneficiaries (Author)
• Building Bridges Through Technological Innovation and Research (Author)
• Technical & Vocational Training in Cameroon (Author)
• Accounting for Quality Healthcare in Ghana (Author)
• First SLDI Participant Impacts Thousands Annually in Kenya (Author)
• Excellent Education: Celebrating HESA Graduation Ceremonies in 2023 (Author)
• Serving Across Contexts - Tanzania to the United States (Author)
• Team Building- 2024 SLDI Partners Workshop in Tanzania (Author)
• Scholarship 2023 Year in Review (Author)
• Research for a Brighter Future (Author)
• HESA Partners Conference takes place in Nairobi (Author)
• Affirming Dignity to the Dying in Zambia (Author)
• Leading Student Peers at CUCG (Author)
• Catholic Sisters: Critical Investigators and Capable Researchers for Africa (Author)
• Scholarship Program 2021: Bridging the Gap to Higher Education for Sisters in Africa (Author)
• Higher Education for Sisters in Africa (HESA) Program, 2021 Year in Review (Author)
• Charism, Spirituality, Mission and Ministry Webinar Takes Place March 15-17 (Profile)
• ASEC Participates in Marywood University's Virtual Research Day (Profile)
• Nun's Ministry Improves Healthcare in Tanzania (Author)
• ASEC/CARA Host Inaugural International Consultative Research (ICR) Conference Virtually (Author)
• COVID-19 Impact on Healthcare and Education Workers: A Phenomenological Case Study in West Africa (Author)
• The Importance of Rural Development in Tanzania (Author)
• COVID-19 Impact in Africa - ASEC Stakeholder Engagement Report (Author)
• From Leader to Servant Leader: A Catholic Nun's Journey (Author)
• Nun Provides Healthcare Services in a Place Where Doctors Shun to Go (Author)
• 6th Visiting Scholar Selected for CARA Research Fellowship (Author)
• Nuns Promote Holistic Education at Kikyusa Schools in Uganda (Author)
• Higher Education for Sisters in Africa (HESA) program, 2019 year in review (Author)
• The Link Between Servant Leadership and Higher Education: Women Religious in Sub-Saharan Africa (Author)
• The Classroom Without Desks in Rural Kenya (Author)
• First HESA Partners Conference takes place in Uganda (Author)
• Dr. Tara Lopatofsky, Awarded Ph.D. for Research on Catholic Sisters in Kenya (Profile)
• Higher Education for Sisters in Africa (HESA) program, 2018 year in review (Author)