Elizabeth Rose, Jack Dougherty Join CTData Collaborative

The Connecticut Data Collaborative (CTData) has announced that Elizabeth Rose and Jack Dougherty have joined the organization as Data Strategy Coaches.

As members of the Data Strategic Planning team at CTData, Rose and Dougherty will coach nonprofits and public agencies on learning how to better use data and storytelling to achieve their goals.

For Dougherty, his efforts coaching nonprofit organizations at CTData will be an extension of the work he has been doing as a faculty member, working with Trinity College students for the past two decades.

In addition to his half-time role at CTData, he is a Professor and Director of the Educational Studies Program at Trinity College in Hartford, where he and his students have collaborated with Hartford-area partners on education, housing, and data visualization projects during the past 25 years. He completed his undergraduate degree at Swarthmore College and earned his Ph.D. in educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Elizabeth Rose brings 13 years of experience in the nonprofit culture and history sector in Connecticut. Most recently, she served as the Executive Director for the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford since 2020, and prior to that she was the Director of the Research Library at the Fairfield Museum and History Center, where she was involved in creating more than 18 exhibitions on a wide range of topics.

On a statewide level, she led the board of the Connecticut League of Museums, which serves history-related nonprofits across the state; spearheaded a collaborative database project for museum collections; and served as an advisory board member for the Connecticut Digital Archive since its inception.

“We are looking forward to pooling our skills to help more organizations through the Data Strategic Planning initiative,” commented Dougherty and Rose. “Nonprofits pursue important and meaningful work in Connecticut, and improving their use of data to tell their story will help to extend their reach and impact.”

Rose earned a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University in U.S. and women’s history and has taught history at the university level, worked with K-12 teachers to improve history instruction, managed research libraries, and led digitization projects.

CTData, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, connects people and data to promote informed decision-making and to advance equity in Connecticut. CTData provides data training and resources to residents, nonprofits, policymakers, and funders to use data to drive policy, program, and service improvements. The organization promotes equitable data practices across the state.

Among its areas of responsibility, CTData has been designated as the lead organization for the State of Connecticut in the U.S. Census Bureau’s State Data Center Program and as Connecticut’s official source for data related to the Census.

“We are thrilled to have Jack and Elizabeth with us, and look forward to their applying their expertise and experience to assist the nonprofits we work with,” said Michelle Riordan-Nold, Executive Director of CTData Collaborative. “They will play a central role in implementing our strategy to provide nonprofits with the tools they need to advance their work.”

CTData works with nonprofit organizations to develop Data Strategic Plans© to map out their use of data to further organizational missions and offers a range of programs and working groups through the CTData Academy.

CTData also operates a data “helpline” to assist data users with obtaining, displaying, interpreting, and using data, and is a partner in the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership.

CTData has accessible data projects available on the CTData website within the following categories: Business & Economy, Children & Families, Civic Engagement, Criminal Justice, Demographics & Population, Education, Hartford, Health & Healthcare, Housing, Migration and Regional/Town Data.

More information about CTData is available on the website at www.ctdata.org.