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Jen Przewoznik on Conducting Research With and within LGBTQI+ Communities: We Don’t Know Exactly What Works, but We Have a Pretty Good Sense of What Doesn’t

3 Comments / Uncategorized / February 16, 2015 February 10, 2015

Hi, I’m Jen Przewoznik, Director of Prevention and Evaluation at the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault. I have been working with and within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) communities for 15 years. I’d like to share some thoughts about conducting research with and within LGBTQI+ communities that I have learned, using …

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Best of aea365 week: Käri Greene on Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / January 30, 2015 January 26, 2015

My name is Käri Greene and I’m a Senior Research Analyst at Program Design & Evaluation Services, an intergovernmental agency for the Oregon Public Health Division and Multnomah County Health Department, as well as a co-Chair for the LGBT Issues TIG. Hold on…what was that jumble of letters at the end of the sentence? Well, …

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Cultural Competence Week: Leah Neubauer on Resources and Updates from the Practice Committee

My name is Leah Christina Neubauer. I am the President of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association and the Program Manager and an Instructor in the MPH Program at DePaul University. Today, I am writing to extend three updates from the Practice committee of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. We …

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LGBT TIG Week: Robert Hoke on Cultural Competence, LGBT, and Challenges to the Field

1 Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 22, 2013 February 22, 2013

I’m Robert Hoke, independent evaluation consultant, and co-chair for the LGBT Issues TIG. Today, I want to share some reflections from this AEA365 week. Although it is becoming easier, it remains challenging to be different regarding sexual identity and gender issues. The “It Gets Better” campaign grew out of the bullying of youth, and primarily …

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LGBT TIG Week: David Fetterman on LGBT-related Evaluation, Medical Education, Civil Rights, and the Press

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 21, 2013 February 21, 2013

My name is David Fetterman. I’m President & CEO of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consulting firm (with 25 years experience at Stanford University) and past-president of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). I am probably best known for empowerment evaluation work (helping people learn how to evaluate their own programs). For examples see our …

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LGBT TIG Week: Efrain Gutierrez’ Top Three Lessons for Evaluators (and Everyone) to Keep in Mind When Working with the LGBTQ Community

1 Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 20, 2013 February 20, 2013

I am Efrain Gutierrez and I work for FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm that helps foundations, nonprofits and corporations increase their social impact. Last year a friend started collaborating as an evaluator for a program that works with LGBTQ youth. Before starting his evaluation he wanted to talk about cultural competency when working with the LGBTQ community. As …

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LGBT TIG Week: Kari Greene and Emily Greytak on Becoming More Transgender-inclusive in Your Evaluation Work

2 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 19, 2013 November 28, 2018

This is Kari Greene with Program Design & Evaluation Services in Oregon, and Emily Greytak with GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network in New York. We are with the American Evaluation Association’s (AEA) LGBT Issues Topical Interest Group (TIG) and are heartened to see AEA members building cultural competency around transgender-inclusivity. Have you …

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LGBT TIG Week: Terry L. Brown on Transgressing Gender

Leave a Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 18, 2013 February 18, 2013

My name is Terry L. Brown, and I am a doctoral candidate in the College of Education at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. Transgressing gender is the practice of blurring socio-constructed gender boundaries as a strategic response to heteronormative practice. Heteronormative, also referred to as gender normative, practice seeks efficiencies through standardizing and regulating …

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LGBT Week: Cary Johnson and Efrain Gutierrez on Evaluating Advocacy Efforts to Promote LGBT Human Rights Around the World

3 Comments / Advocacy and Policy Change, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 9, 2012 February 10, 2012

Hello! We’re Cary Johnson, Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and Efrain Gutierrez, Associate at FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm, and Co-leader of the LGBT TIG. We want to share with you some initial lessons learned and resources we have found since IGLHRC engaged with FSG in the development …

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LGBT Week: Joe Heimlich on Including Trans When We Talk of Gender

2 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 8, 2012 January 30, 2012

Hi. I’m Joe Heimlich, a professor at Ohio State, senior research associate with the Institute for Learning Innovation, and member of the LGBT TIG. I’d like to share some thoughts on including transgender in our discussions of gender when we gather data. In a study of gay and lesbian museum visitors, I was struck by …

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