We are dedicated to using compelling data and human stories to help programs effect meaningful change. We are collaborative and nimble. We’ll help your team find the information and strategy that nurtures your goals, from roots to results.
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Imagine if...
You knew which factors would have the greatest impact on your goals.
Your wide range of stakeholders felt heard and included.
You had a clear sense of what to do next and what lies ahead.
You could communicate your plans effectively and confidently.
We can help. If it’s time for your organization, team, or community to grow toward an abundant future, reach out and tell us your story.
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We focus on issues affecting people and communities. Our special interests include food systems, education, and arts and culture, but our methods transfer well to many content areas. We combine quantitative and qualitative methods to arrive at a more holistic understanding of human issues.
Is your program having an impact? How, why, and what can you do to take it the next step further? We can help you answer these questions at each point in the process: front end, formative, and summative.
Whether it's community meetings, small focus groups, or team brainstorm sessions, we facilitate authentic conversations and collaborative activities that help your people build skills and expand what they can do.
As published writers and experienced report-writers, we know how to engage diverse audiences to communicate where you've been, where you're at, and where you're going.
We help organizations understand their audiences and their situation in context, so that you can aim your energy and resources in the right direction from the start.
Complex programs need a roadmap to steer them, and sometimes an outside partner can help you get organized. If you are struggling to sort through priorities and tactics, we can help you lay a path that makes sense to you and your stakeholders. We develop logic models, evaluation plans, and applied frameworks to help projects proceed with a unified vision.
About Us
Juneberry Research is a research and consulting firm that specializes in people-based research and supporting organizations with the information they need to grow and improve. We work with a wide range of partners—from schools and local governments to non-profits and civic organizations—on projects that seek to build capacity and demonstrate impact through studies of human experience. Our team is trained in applied social sciences, with specific skills in program evaluation, landscape analysis, and mixed methods research. We bring content expertise in food systems, climate and the environment, museums and educational institutions, and STEM education.
Our Story
Our principal researchers met in graduate school studying Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington. Madeline was interested in how cultural identity, health, and environment impacted food practices. Claire was studying how indigenous people’s cultural heritage is appropriated and interpreted. Through coursework in community-based research, ethnographic methods, and foraging for juneberries around campus, the two became lifelong friends.
After completing our degrees, we parted ways but maintained contact. We both found satisfaction in doing applied social science research—Madeline in food systems, and Claire in educational programs—but we couldn’t shake the idea that we’d be “dangerously competent” as a team. We launched our own consulting practice to help organizations answer people-based questions, leveraging over a decade of experience in our respective careers. While we’ve built formidable skills, the network of collaborators we have formed is even more valuable. For each project, we identify the right individuals to extend our team, so that you get the insights and approach that align with what matters to you.
Founded in friendship, built on expertise.
Claire Quimby, MA
For the past ten years, Claire has worked with museums, universities, media companies, and federal grant recipients to understand the impact and reach of a wide range of programs. She has designed and carried out evaluation projects at a range of scales, from quick turnaround feedback to multiyear research efforts. Many of her projects also focus on helping clients build capacity to do their own internal evaluations. Claire’s special interests in evaluation include participatory methods that give agency and voice to the people affected by programs, data visualization, and using tech tools to simplify research processes. Claire holds Master’s degrees in Anthropology and Museum Studies from Indiana University and a BA in Archaeology from Boston University.
Madeline Chera, PhD
In diverse roles and in settings ranging from India to the Midwestern US, Madeline’s work has always centered on helping communities pursue environmental sustainability, resilient local economies, and thriving social networks. Madeline began her career supporting a small conservation nonprofit, and she has continued to build her expertise by working as a nonprofit program director, a mixed methods researcher, and an educator. Over the past decade, she has designed and managed several federally-funded projects to research, evaluate, and build local food systems. She has extensive experience managing relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including government agency staff, community members, and business owners. Madeline holds a PhD and an MA in Anthropology from Indiana University Bloomington, concentrated on food, the environment, and culture, as well as a BA in the Humanities from Villanova University.