Stolas Mares-Cluff is a non-profit data leader who has worked to help organizations leverage information to make sustainable, equitable decisions that benefit their participants and the organization. Their areas of expertise include defining and measuring organizational success, systems design and implementation, strategic planning, and program model design.
They began their public service career at a small domestic violence shelter in rural Utah, where they led the organization’s public reporting cadence and managed their MIS. Stolas discovered their passion for performance measurement and management there, and they continued in that line of work until they were recruited by Utah’s largest domestic violence shelter, YWCA Utah, where they managed both public and private funding reporting and compliance, as well as designing systems and processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Stolas’ passion led them to New York, where they joined STRIVE, a leading workforce development agency based in East Harlem, as the National Performance Director, leading the organization’s performance measurement and management operation across multiple markets in the US.
Stolas earned their Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Weber State University, where their work focused on the metaethics of artificial intelligence. They earned their Executive Masters in Public Administration from NYU.