I’m Rebecca Braun, a consultant with Alaska-based McKinley Research Group (formerly McDowell Group). My background includes journalism, writing, policy work, and teaching, and I am a relative newcomer to evaluation. Indigenous voices are reclaiming power across Alaska, but the imprint of colonialism remains painful and ubiquitous. A friend recently asked, “Why do we have to …
Welcome to The Chicagoland Evaluation Association Week on AEA365! This week’s postings reflect the diversity of our Local Affiliate members and their work, using a lens of cultural responsiveness evaluation with various types of communities. We are excited to share some of our projects along with lessons learned, hot tips, and rad resources from our …
Koolamalsi/Tanshi. We are Larry Bremner, Co-Founder, EvalIndigenous, Associate Editor, Roots & Relations, Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation (CJPE), and Past President, Canadian Evaluation Society (CES); Dr. Nicole Bowman, co-Chair, AEA Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation and Associate Editor, Roots & Relations, CJPE; and Andrealisa Belzer, CE, Indigenous Services Canada, and CES National Board. For several years …
My name is Giovanni Dazzo, former President of Washington Evaluators (WE), doctoral student at George Mason University, and evaluator at the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. In today’s post, I’ll talk about a few lessons learned from the Washington Evaluators pro bono initiative, Evaluation Without Borders (EWB). Before I get …
I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, Director for Program Evaluation with the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Using culturally appropriate approaches when conducting research and evaluation in multicultural settings, is widely accepted and essential. The cultural competence approach serves as the specific framework when conducting evaluations. This approach alone, …
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Hello. We are Briana Ford, MPH, GSNE TIG Co-Chair, and a public health researcher and data analyst working out of my hometown, Columbia, SC; Christine Liboon, doctoral candidate at UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies (Ed&IS)’s Social Research Methodology program; and Crystal Luce, research associate at Aurora Research Institute and adjunct faculty at several local Universities.
POV: You’ve learned about the Evaluation Profession, and you’re ready to go. You’ve delved deep into the subject, but now you’re left with more questions than answers. You’re not alone.
Evaluators working with Indigenous peoples and communities are often advised to become familiar with a Native community’s social, cultural, and spiritual values before beginning a project. As an evaluation community, how can we be more intentional about moving beyond mere familiarity and acknowledgement of these value systems to actively centering them in our evaluation work? …
Hello! I am Luba Falk Feigenberg, Founder and Principal Consultant of Reframe Evaluation where I support mission-driven leaders use evaluation to tell the story of their impact and to build sustainable and equitable practices.
Vulnerability is a feeling of uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure that arises when we allow ourselves to be seen, heard, and deeply known, according to psychologist Brene Brown.
In this sense, vulnerability is an essential part of evaluation. Evaluation is a collaborative process that requires openness, authenticity, and the willingness to delve into uncomfortable spaces.
I’ve found 5 key aspects of vulnerability to be helpful to consider:
Hello! We are Mark Yu and Christina Lemon from McREL International. In our daily work as evaluator and practitioner, respectively, we aim to bridge boundaries between research and practice and expand ways communities can more effectively collaborate and promote equitable educational student outcomes. One strategy we employ in our work is knowledge brokering.
Hello! I am Dr. Divya Bheda, you can find more about me here, and I am a feminist and an evaluator—i.e., a feminist evaluator. Over the last decade of being one, I often revisit what being a feminist evaluator means to me. Today, I thought I would share my current perspective with you.
