About The Lighthouse Consultancy

I'm Tynaje Thomas, MPH — founder of The Lighthouse Consultancy and a public health practitioner with nearly a decade of experience in program evaluation, health equity research, and health systems.

My work lives at the intersection of data and community. I've led evaluations for SAMHSA-funded community coalitions, contributed to peer-reviewed research published in EClinicalMedicine, and authored health equity policy briefs that have informed state-level decision-making. Before launching Lighthouse, I built my expertise across universities, state agencies, and community-based organizations — leading projects in systems change, program assessment, and equity-focused policy development.

I founded The Lighthouse Consultancy because I kept watching community organizations do extraordinary work and struggle to prove it in the language funders and leadership required. That gap — between the work happening on the ground and the evidence needed to sustain it — is exactly where Lighthouse operates.

The name matters.

Lighthouses don't chase ships. They stand firm, emit a clear signal, and trust that the vessels that need guidance will find them.

That's the posture of this consultancy. We don't offer everything to everyone. We do one thing exceptionally well: we help community health organizations measure their impact, document their outcomes, and communicate their results in ways that protect their funding and advance their mission.

If your organization is doing real work in communities and struggling to show funders, boards, or leadership what that work is actually producing — that's the signal we're built to answer.

Our Methodology: The BRIDGE Framework

Every Lighthouse evaluation is grounded in our proprietary BRIDGE Framework — a structured approach to community-centered program evaluation that moves organizations from data collection through actionable insight.

BRIDGE ensures that our evaluations aren't just technically sound — they're useful. Findings are translated into clear recommendations your team can act on and your funders can trust.

900+ individuals served across evaluated programs. 5 partner organizations coordinated in a single SAMHSA-funded evaluation. 1 peer-reviewed publication in EClinicalMedicine. 1 health equity publication with Colorado Health Institute.

Our Vision: A public health ecosystem where every community organization can prove its impact, protect its funding, and sustain the work that changes lives.

Our Mission: To provide rigorous, community-centered program evaluation and health equity research that helps organizations translate their work into evidence — and their evidence into action.