Greetings colleagues. My moniker is Michael Quinn Patton and I do independent evaluation consulting under the name Utilization-Focused Evaluation, which just happens also to be the title of my main evaluation book, now in its 4th edition. I am a former AEA president. One of the challenges I’ve faced over the years, as many of us do, …
Greetings colleagues. My moniker is Michael Quinn Patton and I do independent evaluation consulting under the name Utilization-Focused Evaluation, which just happens also to be the title of my main evaluation book, now in its 4th edition. I am a former AEA president. One of the challenges I’ve faced over the years, as many of …
Michael Quinn Patton on Using Children’s Stories to Open Up Evaluation Dialogues Read More »
Thank you for pausing during your busy day to read this post, I’m Michelle DiStefano. I am fortunate and humbled to combine my passions and work as the Community Research Associate Director for the Pace Center for Girls (Pace) in Jacksonville, FL. Pace believes in creating a just and equitable future where the young women we serve have power.
Hi! We are Keiko Kuji-Shikatani, Canadian Evaluation Society Fellow and Credentialed Evaluator, Wendy Rowe from the School of Leadership at Royal Roads University in Canada and Credentialed Evaluator, and Chi Yan Lam, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University and Credentialed Evaluator. Unimaginable violence against the children, youth and families of …
We’re Kathy Pettit and Leah Hendey, and we codirect the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP)—an almost-30-year-old network with partner organizations in 32 cities that helps local groups and people access and use to the data they need and the help they need to use it to ensure all neighborhoods are places where people can thrive. …
We are Leah C. Neubauer and Ayesha Boyce. We represent unique pathways into evaluation and we developed this blog to share our own journeys. We are also fierce amigas, collaborators, advocates, and sponsors to each and la causa. We are excited for the upcoming 10-year anniversary of LaRED. The MIE and LaRED TIGs fostered support for critical evaluation scholarship and deep community connection. People, relationships, and stories bind our work together.
Chokma! Saholchifoat Chelsey Branham, Chickasha saya mentali okla humma. Greetings! I’m Chelsey Branham, a Chickasaw from Oklahoma. I own One Whole Village Consulting LLC., a firm specializing in increasing structural equity in institutions through evaluation, strategy, and development. As an associate professor in the Smith College School for Social Work, I teach policy and evaluation …
LEEAD Fellows Alumni Curated Week: Evaluation: A Dirty Word by Chelsey Branham Read More »
Greetings from Vidhya Shanker, convener of The May 13 Group. Art history taught me to ask why makers choose some forms and not others. In his video echoing the idea that Nicky Bowman, Jara Dean-Coffey, and myself have shared—to use a forest ecosystem instead of a single tree as a metaphor for the knowledge economy …
Hi folks, my name is Caitlin Showalter—I am a Technical Advisor in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning with the Palladium Group and based in eastern North Carolina. This was my first year attending the AEA conference, and what an impressive gathering of minds, stories, and hopes for the future of evaluation! I presented as part of a group of panelists to discuss evaluation in global health programs, representing the USAID-funded Data for Impact (D4I) project and our work on the Second Periodic Assessment of USAID’s Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy (MSNS).
Hello! We are Isaac D. Castillo and Colleen Coyne, and we represent the Learning and Evaluation team at KABOOM!. And we have a question for you: What do playgrounds, data, systemic racism, maps, and evaluation all have in common? Playgrounds should serve as a sanctuary for children – an escape from everyday pressures where they can just be kids. But not every child in the United States has access to a safe and high-quality playground. At KABOOM!, we refer to these disparities in access and quality as playspace inequity. KABOOM! builds playgrounds in partnership with others across the United States to end playspace inequity, so more kids can grow up happy and healthy. But how do we measure playspace inequity? That is where data, maps, storytelling, and evaluation come in.
