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STEM Program Evaluation Lab Week: Lessons Learned when Mentoring Undergraduate Students by Onyinyechukwu Onwuka du Bruyn, Brianna Hooks Singletary, and Grettel Arias Orozco

Leave a Comment / STEM Education and Training / August 14, 2021

Hello! Our names are Onyinyechukwu Onwuka du Bruyn, Brianna Hooks Singletary, and Grettel Arias Orozco from Nigeria, the United States of America, and Costa Rica, respectively. We are doctoral students in the UNC Greensboro Educational Research Methodology department specializing in Program Evaluation. We are members of the STEM Program Evaluation Lab (SPEL) under the tutelage …

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Oregon Evaluators Week: Sustaining a CREE Independent Evaluation Practice using Near-Peer Mentoring by Karyl Askew

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 19, 2020

Karyl Askew, here. I am an Oregon-based independent program evaluation consultant specializing in culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE). Independent evaluation consultants often experience social isolation, which can be more pronounced as an evaluator of color doing equity work. However, while I operate a sole proprietor consulting business, I rarely work alone. Near-peer mentoring has …

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IC TIG Week: June 5th is My Independence Day by Mindelyn Anderson & Geri Lynn Peak

2 Comments / Independent Consulting / June 25, 2020

Hi, I am Mindelyn Anderson, Ph.D.,  Founder + Principal Consultant of Mirror Group LLC, LEEAD* Protege, and IC TIG Program Co-Chair.  Hi, I am Geri Lynn Peak, DrPH, Chief Insight Facilitator of Two Gems Consulting Services and Itinerant Social Actionist, 3X LEEAD Mentor, Mirror Group Birth Doula. We are sharing our experiences of how our …

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Washington Evaluators Week: Strengthening and sustaining the evaluation community through organizational mentorship by Tamarah Moss

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 29, 2019

It is my honor to contribute to the Washington Evaluators (WE) week on AEA365. My name is Tamarah Moss, former volunteer coordinator for the Washington Evaluators New Professional Scholarship Program. As an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and previously at Howard University, I am constantly considering …

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Washington Evaluators Week: Mentor Minutes – A Community-Building Initiative by Emily Bango

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 29, 2019

Hi there! My name is Emily Bango and I’m an evaluator based in Washington, DC.  I’m also the current Mentor Minutes Coordinator for Washington Evaluators (WE). Mentor Minutes is an initiative that aims to connect current WE members to experienced evaluation professionals in the WE community through short-term mentorship opportunities. The purpose of Mentor Minutes …

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Mentoring Initiatives for Young and Emerging Evaluators by Evan Poncelet

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 16, 2018

Hi, AEA365ers! I’m Evan Poncelet, REAL Evaluation Fellow at the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation in Halifax, Canada. Last year, as a young and emerging evaluator, I decided to seek out a mentor through the Canadian Evaluation Society’s mentoring initiative. Fast forward to the present day: I recently concluded my mentorship, which was a fantastic …

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Are you really coaching? by Betsy Block

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / September 5, 2018

Hi! I’m Betsy Block, coach, consultant and jill-of-all-trades.  I added coaching to my capacity building work as I trained with two thought pioneers– Coaching Training Institute and CRR Global. Evaluators have started asking critical, challenging questions: how do we build our client’s capacity? How do we incorporate equity into our own practices? How do we …

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Mentoring Future Evaluators by Beverly Peters

9 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / August 7, 2018

Greetings! I’m Beverly Peters, an evaluator with over 25 years’ experience, mainly in southern Africa. As an Assistant Professor at American University, I teach online evaluation courses in Measurement and Evaluation. I am very cognizant when I teach evaluation that I am training graduate students who will in the future be conceptualizing, implementing, and/or evaluating …

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Establishing Ethical Boundaries: Experience of an Emerging Evaluator by Christina Peterson

4 Comments / Uncategorized / February 24, 2018

My name is Christina Peterson. Shortly after starting my first semester as a PhD student at the University of Tennessee, I had an opportunity to participate in an evaluation project as a data collector. It was just the type of experience I felt I needed to establish myself as an emerging evaluator in my community. …

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LA RED TIG Week: Latina/o Evaluation – Mentoring by Art Hernandez

Leave a Comment / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse / June 16, 2017

My name is Art Hernandez, Visiting Professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. I was an AEA MSI Fellow early on and have served as the Director for several cohorts – most recently this past year. I serve and have served as evaluator and teacher of evaluation and am very …

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