Who are we?

See Change is a team of seasoned researchers, community-based workers, university faculty, current and former foundation staff, and policy makers. We work hand-in-hand with communities and organizations to distill our visual and ethnographic findings into usable knowledge for programs and the larger field of philanthropy.

Principal Staff Biographies:

• Melanie Moore Kubo, Chief Executive Officer
• Elizabeth Bandy, Director of Research & Learning
• Rebecca Aced-Molina, Senior Research Associate
• Stacy Marple, Senior Research Associate
• Melissa Saphir, Senior Research Associate
• Michaela Leslie-Rule, Senior Storyteller
• Angela Kan, Research Associate
• Alyssa Andrews, Research Assistant
• Suki McCoy, Operations and Finance Director

Professional Partners:

See Change enjoys strong relationships with a network of evaluation, community development, and video production professionals in the Bay Area and nationally. We draw on this network when the scope and scale of a project calls for additional capacity or specialization.

Our Values, Vision, and Mission

We value:

• The diversity of human experience,
• Communication that deepens mutual understanding,
• Interdependence within and among communities of people,
• Growth, development, and change for the better.

We envision:

• Creative, beneficial, and sustainable ideas, actions, and relationships emerging from ongoing, lively, and fruitful discussions among diverse, engaged stakeholders in families, communities and organizations about their interdependent well-being.

We work:

• To enable individuals, communities, and foundations to share and learn from their most important stories.