About me
Samantha Togni is an evaluation and social research consultant based in Mparntwe/Alice Springs. She has almost 30 years’ experience in First Nations health and wellbeing research and evaluation, working with rural and remote Indigenous organisations in northern and central Australia. Sam loves using developmental evaluation and participatory evaluation approaches to support innovation and systems change in complex, culturally diverse contexts. Currently she is facilitating a nine-year developmental evaluation of an innovative governance capacity development program working with directors of two Aboriginal Corporations and the Central Land Council. She is also engaged by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women’s Council to facilitate long-term developmental evaluations of Anangu-led innovations in the areas of mental health and social and emotional wellbeing, healing, family violence prevention and strengthening intercultural understandings.
