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LAWG Week: Evaluation Firms: Let’s Hire Youth! by Katie Fritz Fogel and Selam Tilahun

1 Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / July 29, 2019 August 1, 2019

Hello! We’re Katie Fritz Fogel and Selam Tilahun, Research Associates at Rainbow Research, a nonprofit evaluation and applied community research firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building, Sally Leiderman challenges evaluators to imagine “What would anti-racist evaluation look like?” We see evaluation as one tool for anti-racist community building …

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LAWG Week: WOPASI: Indigenous Youth Research & Development Center by Wakinyan LaPointe

Wakinyan miye yelo Sicangu Lakota Oyate hematanhan. Lakowicoh’an waun welo. My name is Wakinyan LaPointe, I am from the Burnt Thigh Lakota Nation. I am here to kick off a full week of blogs about youth-engaged evaluation on behalf of the Minnesota Evaluation Association, acting as the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) planning for AEA …

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LAWG Week: The Potential Impact of Twitter on Disseminating Evaluation Findings by Tania Jarosewich

1 Comment / Uncategorized / September 14, 2018 September 2, 2018

Hello, my name is Tania Jarosewich, owner of Censeo Group, a northeast Ohio program evaluation firm that supports educational agencies and nonprofit organizations in evaluating their programmatic efforts. We northeast Ohio evaluators are excited to welcome you to Cleveland for Evaluation 2018. Check out the Rad Resources below for a list of Cleveland-focused Twitter feeds. …

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LAWG Week: Graphical Excellence by Douglas Clay

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / September 13, 2018 September 2, 2018

Hello, and welcome to Cleveland! I’m Douglas Clay, a longtime Cleveland resident and evaluator with Candor Consulting. I focus on data analysis and assessment training mostly with K-12 schools. I’ve been in Cleveland long enough to remember when the Browns were a winning team, when the shopping centers were steel mills, and trendy Tremont was …

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LAWG Week: Great Lakes, Great Data: COVES implementation at The Great Lakes Science Center by Scott Vollmer

Leave a Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / September 12, 2018 September 2, 2018

Hi, I’m Scott Vollmer, VP of STEM Learning at Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC) in Cleveland, Ohio. I am passionate about my work and find that evaluation data is especially useful when trying to express my passion objectively. Since July 2017, we have been using COVES (the Collaboration for Ongoing Visitor Experience Studies) to collect …

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LAWG Week: Evaluation Without Borders: Giving Back During Evaluation 2018 by Seema Mahato

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / September 11, 2018 September 10, 2018

Greetings! I’m Seema Mahato, board member (student representative) for The Ohio Program Evaluator’s Group (OPEG) and a member of the Local Arrangements Working Group for Evaluation 2018. ‘Evaluation without Borders’, a pro-bono evaluation consulting program was piloted by Washington Evaluators at the 2017 AEA conference. As a participant of this event during AEA 2017, as a …

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LAWG Week: Playhouse Square Welcomes You to Cleveland by Cindi Szymanski

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 10, 2018 September 4, 2018

I’m Cindi Szymanski, Senior Manager of Brand Marketing & Communications for the largest performing arts center in the country outside of New York. On behalf of everyone at Playhouse Square, please allow me to welcome you to our great city! Playhouse Square has a total of 11 performance spaces and welcomes more than a million …

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LAWG Week: There is so much to see and do in Cleveland, you might want to stay a few extra days by Clara Pelfrey

1 Comment / Uncategorized / September 9, 2018 September 2, 2018

Hello! I’m Clara Pelfrey, a native Clevelander, a board member of the Ohio Program Evaluators Group and a member of the Local Arrangements Working Group for Evaluation 2018. I’d like to welcome you to a week of blogs about evaluation in Cleveland as well as tell you about my fair city and the things you …

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LAWG Week: Evaluation 2018 from a Systems Thinking Perspective by Jan Noga

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 20, 2018 July 16, 2018

Hello, my name is Jan Noga. I’m the owner of Pathfinder Evaluation and Consulting in Cincinnati. I’m excited to see the conference here in Ohio; although, living in the opposite corner of the state, it’s going to take me longer to drive to Cleveland than it would to fly to DC! The conference is exciting. …

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LAWG Week: Community Outreach and Engagement in Cleveland by Michelle Davis

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 19, 2018 July 16, 2018

In the spirit of my six year old’s joy of watching kids YouTube, Hey Guys! This is Michelle Davis, from Cleveland, Ohio! I am the Assistant Director of Tremont West Development Corporation and am excited that your conference is visiting our neighborhood. Tremont West is a nonprofit serving the 7,500+ residents of the Tremont, Duck …

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