Maji Shaikh is a doctoral candidate in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa. His primary area of research is in exploring positive youth development through sport and recreation. His expertise lies in trauma-sensitive practices, program evaluation, and knowledge translation within the sport context. Over the past five years, Maji has worked with several youth sport organizations and community programs to evaluate their programming, including organizations such as BGC Canada and the Start2Finish program. He also co-founded and chairs an evaluation committee at BGC Ottawa to help facilitate evaluation activities within the organization. Maji’s consulting practice largely focuses on helping organizations build their evaluation capacity, and integrate ongoing evaluation practices within the fabric of their programming.