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About Us
Angela J. Donelson, PhD, AICP
Angie has more than 20 years of professional experience in regional planning and community development. In June 2006, she incorporated Donelson Consulting LLC to assist nonprofit organizations (which have included local nonprofits, national nonprofits, business associations and foundations) and local governments with research, planning and implementation of community development strategies and programs. From 1999-2004, Dr. Donelson worked as the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) representative to Arizona’s colonias. In this role, she assisted dozens of underprivileged, rural US-Mexico border communities and nonprofit organizations with various capacity building needs. Before that, she worked as a city planner in southern Arizona, New Jersey and Kansas. She specializes in outcomes-oriented program evaluation, economic and community development planning and financing strategies, and grant writing/training.
Angie completed a doctorate in geography (with a concentration in economic geography) at the University of Arizona 2005. Her dissertation work, which addressed innovative community development approaches to fighting US-Mexico border poverty, was sponsored by a fellowship from the Rural Poverty Research Center and Annie E. Casey Foundation. She has a master’s in community and regional planning from Kansas State University, and bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Arizona. She also has received community development training from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University. She is certified by the American Planning Association as a professional planner (AICP).
Dr. Donelson has co-authored two academically-refereed books on US-border community development with the University of Arizona Press as well as articles in peer-reviewed journals, addressing housing policy, rural poverty, and community development in inter-cultural contexts.
Mary B. Adam, MD, MA, PhD, FAAP
Dr. Adam is a Visiting Professor at Strathmore University in the Institute for Health Management. She is a pediatrician working in medical education and public health based at AIC Kijabe Hospital, Kenya, where she is the Director of the Kijabe Maternal Newborn Community Health Project. She completed her medical school and pediatric residency training at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Dr. Adam did her PhD in Psychology, with a focus in Program Evaluation and Research Methods, with Lee Sechrest, PhD.
The dissertation was based on fieldwork done in Kenya. She has worked as a consultant in research methods and program evaluation for health education programs with a focus on maternal newborn health and teen pregnancy, STD and HIV prevention. Her active research projects include effectiveness trials of quality improvement processes in primary care settings in developing countries, evaluation of in-service training of community health extension workers, and examining a range of human resource and community health information system issues in community health unit development.
Dr. Adam currently serves on the Community Health Services Technical Work Group for Operational Research with the Kenyan Ministry of Health. She has served as an in country advisor as well as an external reviewer for the Micro-research Program, a multinational network committed to developing small locally driven multidisciplinary research teams. Her ongoing interest in public health in developing countries was fuelled in 2007-2008 when she spent a year in Kenya courtesy of a Fulbright Research Award in HIV prevention and the experience resulted in her relocating to Kenya. She has published work in the fields of judgment and decision making, pediatrics, and public health with publications in Journals such as Risk Analysis, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Plos One and others. In addition to publications on health promotion and prevention, Dr. Adam has published a variety of work in bioethics and has served the American Academy of Pediatrics as member and chair of the Section of Bioethics.