Stephanie Chasteen is a physicist, education researcher, and experienced external evaluator. She serves as the external evaluator for this project, and is a full time consultant with Chasteen Educational Consulting. She has integrated research on faculty and institutional change to lead and evaluate department-based change initiatives in multiple STEM disciplines. She has served as external evaluator for 20 STEM improvement projects since 2009, including national-level projects in the physics community such as the New Faculty Workshop (AAPT/APS/AAS), the Joint Task Force for Undergraduate Physics Programs (APS/AAPT), Get the Facts out (Mines/AAPT/APS/ACS) and PhysTEC (APS/AAPT).