Nichola Driver, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Clinton School of Public Service, where she has taught Field Research Methods and Program Evaluation, and serves as the Director of the Office of Field Service.

 

She is a maternal and reproductive health scholar, having published on topics such as attitudes towards contraception among teens and their parents in Arkansas, attitudes towards teen pregnancy among Latinas across the U.S., teen sexual risk behavior, and disparities in maternal parenting stress.

 

She is also an experienced evaluator, having consulted for several local and state-wide organizations on monitoring and evaluation, including the Arkansas Department of Health, Entergy, UAMS Women’s Health Clinic, Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, Arkansas Human Development Corp, The Contingent, and Northwest Arkansas Community College, among others.

 

She frequently serves as an invited speaker for external institutions on the topics of monitoring and evaluation, developing indicators that matter, and the importance of logic models in program planning and evaluation.

 

Driver holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Texas and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Driver was also named to the 2024 Class of “40 Under 40” from Arkansas Business.