Nika Elugardo is founding director of Applied Evaluation Systems, the consulting arm of the Emmanuel Gospel Center. She has been actively involved with the Emmanuel Gospel Center since 2000, where she has served in capacities such as strategic management consultant and vice chairperson of the Board of Directors. Her professional experience includes national low-income advocacy and training, research, not-for-profit development and outcomes measurement consulting. She currently chairs the Board of 1head1body, a ministry that serves Christians in furthering racial reconciliation in churches. Ms. Elugardo received her Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard's JFK School of Government and her B.S. in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nika, her husband and their daughter live in the Mission Hill area of Boston and are active members of Cambridgeport Baptist Church