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.
Dr. Saphir joined See Change in 2006. She serves as a project lead and analyst for clients seeking quantitative answers to their evaluation questions.
Dr. Saphir earned her PhD in 1999 from the Stanford Department of Communication, where she was trained in research methods and statistics for social science while studying the use and effects of mass media. Her dissertation research examined effects of a civics and voting curriculum on adolescents' political development and on their parents' interpersonal discussion behavior. After graduating, she worked for three years at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention. There she directed an NIH-funded implementation and evaluation of two interventions (one to reduce television viewing and one to prevent smoking) at 12 public elementary schools.
Dr. Saphir has experience working with a range of social scientific research designs. She has occasionally had the luxury of using the "gold standards" of research—small controlled experiments in the lab and large-scale randomized controlled clinical trials in the field. More often, she works with the best methods available for applied questions-surveys (both cross-sectional and longitudinal) and quasi-experiments (evaluation of interventions in which random assignment to experimental conditions is imperfect and/or true control groups are absent). In her evaluation work, she seeks to integrate information from multiple research methods and to design research strategies that build over time.
Dr. Saphir is also a mother and a highly certified ballroom dance teacher. When not crunching numbers for See Change, she trains aspiring dance teachers and raises her two small children.
Dr. Saphir is also a mother and a highly certified ballroom dance teacher. When not crunching numbers for See Change, she trains aspiring dance teachers and raises her two small children.
