Hilary Cherner oversees Arabella Advisors’ consulting practice, managing the consulting staff and helping to ensure the highest quality of guidance for Arabella’s clients. She also manages a variety of client engagements, providing guidance on strategy, evaluation and project implementation. In her years at Arabella, Hilary’s work has ranged from advising a family foundation on strategies to invest in research and treatment for a rare disease to developing a framework for a major international foundation to monitor and evaluate its programmatic and organizational achievement. She continues to develop her expertise in how philanthropy can effectively work both independently and in partnership with government to address issues of domestic poverty.
Hilary has spent the last decade working in the nonprofit and public sectors. Prior to joining Arabella, she served as an Emerging Leader Fellow for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she developed evaluation measures for the Community Food and Nutrition Program, managed grant reviews for the Administration of Children and Families, and conducted monitoring and evaluation for Head Start grantees. Hilary holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Colorado, and an M.A. in Public Affairs with a concentration in nonprofit and public management from Indiana University.