During her six years at Facente Consulting, Autumn has led more than a dozen projects in partnership with state and local public health departments, academic institutions, and community-based organizations. As a Senior Consultant, Autumn’s primary roles have included program evaluation, qualitative research, design of public health communications, and technical writing in a wide range of public health domains. While her work has spanned a number of methods and content areas, she is most passionate about helping clients tell their story through compelling, user-friendly visuals and narrative. Autumn holds a Master of Public Health degree from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford University. Prior to working in public health consulting, she served as a researcher in global health and environmental anthropology, spent several years as a science and English educator on four different continents, and directed a non-profit youth leadership organization.
Related Projects:
California Tobacco Prevention Program Equity and Justice Framework Development
Facente Consulting helped California’s Tobacco Control Program to plan and implement a Health Equity Summit in September 2022, followed by writing a Health Equity Plan to guide the Program’s work to end tobacco use in California among the most highly impacted groups.
Capacity-Building Assistance for Programs Serving Trans People in the Midwest
Facente Consulting supported San Francisco Community Health Center in designing and implementing a six-session community of practice that brought together community-based organizations, health departments, and other agencies in the Midwest United States for peer-to-peer learning to improve HIV-related service delivery to trans people in the US.
Geographic Information System (GIS) Mapping for Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
Facente Consulting partnered with Garrow Consulting, LLC to design and create a Story Map for CAMI Health, depicting findings from qualitative interviews about reproductive health choices with young women, partners, grandmothers, and researchers/policymakers in sub-Saharan Africa.
Academic Manuscript Development
Dr. Tan at UCSF reached out to Facente Consulting for ongoing assistance with manuscript development, literature reviews, and technical editing to support grant submissions, helping to move her academic portfolio forward and support her overall research goals.
The Tobacco Free Project Communities of Excellence Process
Facente Consulting collaborated with San Francisco’s Tobacco Free Project and Bright Research Group to facilitate a virtual, four-part community engagement process to guide the Project in setting priorities for its next work plan.
Evaluation of Gender-Inclusive School Trainings in California
Facente Consulting is evaluating the impact of Gender Spectrum’s gender-inclusive trainings on staff and students from trained schools.
Workplace Wellness Needs Assessment and Toolkit Revamp
The Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Branch of the California Department of Public Health hired Facente Consulting to assess and revamp the California Fit Business Kit, a toolkit that supports employers to implement worksite wellness strategies for low-wage workers.
Tobacco Free Project Quantitative Data Analysis
To support San Francisco’s Tobacco Free Project in analyzing local data to report during community engagement meeting presentations, Facente Consulting analyzed datasets from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and the Healthy Stores Healthy Communities (HSHC) Survey.
Tobacco Free Project Evaluation Support
Facente Consulting collaborated with the Tobacco Free Project over the course of three years to guide, design and implement a range of evaluation activities, including survey data collection, key infomant interviews, public opinion polls, and training of community data collectors.
Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Program Evaluation
Facente Consulting served as the local evaluator for a five-year grant funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to support HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), and substance use prevention among unhoused, LGBTQ+ young adults ages 18-24 in San Francisco.
LGBTQ+ Commercial Tobacco Control Program Evaluation Support
San Francisco Community Health Center hired Facente Consulting as an external evaluator for a five-year project focused on reducing commercial tobacco-related disparities in the LGBTQ+ community though coalition-building and policy change.
DeLIVER Care Van Strategic Planning
The DeLIVER Care van hired Facente Consulting to facilitate a series of meetings to help them strategize around staff turnover and sustainability, improve financial sustainability, create a community action board, and systematize volunteer engagement.
Capacity-Building Assistance Evaluation
San Francisco’s Center for Learning and Innovation hired Facente Consulting as an external evaluator for their five-year grant providing capacity-building assistance to CDC-funded organizations focused on non-clinical HIV testing and HIV prevention in the Western Region of the United States.
Curriculum Development on Nevada’s Good Samaritan Law for the Larson Institute at the University of Nevada, Reno
Facente Consulting was hired to develop a curriculum and virtual training for public defenders in Nevada on the state’s Good Samaritan Law.
Development of a Survey and Report to Assess Harm Reduction Capacity in Nevada
Facente Consulting is developing a survey tool to measure statewide capacity of harm reduction interventions and delivering of a report on survey findings and recommendations.
Evaluation for CDC-Funded Workforce Development for San Francisco Department of Public Health
Facente Consulting is working with the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Center for Learning and Innovation to support the design and implementation of Project INVEST (Innovations that Value Equity and Stength in Teams), a workforce retention evaluation initiative.
Affiming Trans Access to Housing Curriculum Development
San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing hired Facente Consulting to develop a curriculum designed to affirm access to housing for transgender and gender nonconforming people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Strategic Support for the California Overdose Prevention and Harm Reduction Initiative
Facente Consulting is providing strategic support gathering data and stakeholder input and developing a document to guide NHRC’s internal infrastucture and capacity-building work.
Fresno County Health Department Maternal and Child Health Needs Assessment
Facente Consulting is supporting Fresno County, California in developing a needs assessment to understand and guide local efforts to promote maternal and child health.
Development of a Guide to Integrating HIV, HCV, and Syphilis Testing and Treatment in Opioid Treatment Programs
Facente Consulting supported the development of a guide to providing integrated HIV/HCV/STI testing, linkage and treatment in opioid treatment program settings.