Hello, my name is Emilia Gonzalez. I am a Knowledge & Evaluation Doctoral Research Assistant with the International and Canadian Children’s Rights Partnership and a PhD student at Toronto Metropolitan University. Over the past ten years, I have been working with young people to better understand and address complex social issues that affect their lives. …
Hello there! We are Samantha Holquist, Quiana Lewis Wallace, and Deja Logan, researchers at Child Trends, an independent research organization committed to enhancing the well-being of children and youth. As community-engaged researchers, we partner with youth as co-researchers across many of our projects. Because youth typically do not learn how to conduct research in schools, …
Hi! Our names are Brianna, Serrah, and Diamond and we are youth researchers in Minnesota. Alyssa Scott is a researcher at Child Trends supporting us in writing this blog and sharing what we think works for keeping youth engaged in research projects. The project we’re working on is Adapted Measures of Math Engagement (AM-ME), a …
Greetings! We are Diane Hsieh (research scientist) and Lex Nappa (research and practice associate) at Search Institute, an applied research non-profit organization focused on Positive Youth Development (PYD). We would like to share some main takeaways from a project that aimed to integrate PYD principles into a digital, LGBTQ+ social network platform in order to …
Hello! My name is Heather Sauyaq Jean Kwamboka Gordon. I am both Iñupiaq from Alaska as well as a part of a Kenyan Kisii family that I joined through marriage. I am the Owner/Principal Consultant for Sauyaq Solutions, a consulting organization supporting Indigenous Nations, organizations, and projects in research and evaluation. My evaluation work seeks …
I’m Natalie De Sole (she/her), a white, multicultural, independent consultant and founder of the evaluation firm Rooted-Growth. Elevating youth voice requires me to walk the tightrope of values and relationships. My outsider status often goes beyond that of a third-party party evaluator; my race, ethnicity, gender, culture, lived experiences, education, and community usually differ from …
Hello! My name is Heather Worker, and I am the Program Data Manager for a Food for Thought in northern California. My former evaluation roles advanced outcomes for youth and young adults, where evaluation and program design activities involved youth voice to varying degrees. Lessons Learned Rad Resources Do you have questions, concerns, kudos, or …
This post was original released on AEA365 in 2021, and was so popular the first time around, it is being reshared from the archives at the request of the Youth Focused Evaluation TIG. Greetings. We’re Susan Igras (Senior Technical Advisor at Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health and occasional Consultant) and Ousséni Kinda (Monitoring and Evaluation …
This post was original released on AEA365 in 2020, and was so popular the first time around, it is being reshared from the archives at the request of the Youth Focused Evaluation TIG. We are Christine Crumbacher, PhD, Evaluation Specialist at Greenville County Schools in South Carolina, and Michael Sikes, PhD, independent Program Evaluator. Each …
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Deborah Wasserman, Kit Klein, Carey Tisdal, and Priya Mohabir are Co-PIs on Roads Taken: A Retrospective Study of Program Strategies and Long-term Impacts of Intensive, Multi-year, STEM Youth Programs (NSF AISL #1906396). Deborah is a senior researcher with COSI Center for Research and Evaluation in Columbus, OH; Kit and Carey both independent contractors have been …
