Meet 2025 Mutz Philanthropic Leadership Institute class member Wendy Sedlak! Wendy is the strategy director for research and evaluation at Lumina Foundation. In her role, she establishes and synthesizes the evidence and data necessary to advise Lumina’s strategic direction and documents effective practices and policies to inform the foundation and the field. Prior to coming to Lumina, Sedlak worked at Equal Measure, where she managed and directed projects across various portfolios of work, including many large-scale complex national systems-change evaluations addressing complex challenges in the social sector. Sedlak earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and master’s and doctoral degrees from Temple University.
