Elora Way

Elora works within two teams at the University of Southern Maine: the Data Innovation Project and the Maine Rural Health Research Center.

Elora brings to the Data Innovation Project multifaceted experience working within and supporting nonprofit organizations and their boards, from Maine to New Mexico. She is empathic toward the challenges they face and motivated to explore realistic ways to use data to improve their capacity and outcomes.

For the Maine Rural Health Research Institute, Elora supports analytics for various research on barriers to health access for rural residents. Elora has worked on a variety of evaluation and technical assistance contracts on rural youth development, rural outdoor recreation access, lung cancer screening programs, post-secondary education and career pathways for current and former foster youth, early childhood development, and health access safety net programs, to name a few.

Outside of work, Elora is a perpetual student but can sometimes be found sailing around Casco Bay or exploring northern Maine and the Katahdin region.