Hey there! We’re Eliza Carroll and Will Minor from Deloitte’s Evaluation and Research for Action Center of Excellence. In our work, we collaborate with government agencies to evaluate their impactful initiatives.
I am David Bernstein, owner of DJB Evaluation Consulting and Director of Evaluation with the General Commission on Religion and Race of the United Methodist Church. Don’t let these non-governmental positions fool you. I have been involved in government evaluation for many years, and was the founding Chair of AEA’s Government Evaluation TIG.
Gov’t Eval TIG Week: Lessons Learned in Government Evaluation by David Bernstein Read More »
Hello! I am Carmen Carrillo, a DrPH student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and an evaluator with the County of San Diego’s Office of Evaluation, Performance, and Analytics. During my DrPH practicum, I explored a question that may feel familiar to many evaluators: In times of change, how can we
OL-ECB TIG Week: Making Culture Visible: A Checklist for Evidence Use by Carmen Carrillo Read More »
We, are Monica Bruckner, Ashley Carlson, Ellen Iverson, Kristin O’Connell, and Kerry Vachta, the Evaluation & Education Research team at Carleton College’s Science Education Resource Center (SERC). We provide use-inspired evaluation, thought partnership, and support for programs and capacity building projects in, and beyond, higher education. We are excited to share some approaches that have
Hello! We are Nadine Alamy, Lisa Burton, Katie Cornelius, and Alfred Vitale from four different areas in Mayo Clinic: Office of Applied Scholarship and Education Science, Cancer Center, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, and Center for Clinical and Translational Science. Though our work serves different audiences, we share a common interest in strengthening evaluation capacity
I am Santee Ezell, a scholar-practitioner working across evaluation, public health, higher education, and community development in rural Mississippi. My work has taught me that trust is built long before data are collected and that numbers rarely tell the full story. A survey may show low attendance, missed appointments, or poor retention. Those metrics can
Greetings! I’m Elizabeth Devaney, an organizational learning consultant and evaluator in the San Francisco Bay Area. After 30 years in nonprofit leadership, I returned to school to study how evaluators can better help organizations strengthen their work in times of change. One of the most useful tools I discovered on my doctoral journey was the
Hi. We’re Kenneth Chomba, Network Coordinator at the African Coaching Network (ACN); Chris Kif, Co-Director at Sauti Bridge; and Maria Selde of Humanity United, whose team has accompanied ACN’s work as a learning partner. Between us, we support and evaluate social movements across Africa, work that rarely stays still long enough for a tidy programme
Greetings from Wisconsin! My name is Michelle Borckardt, and I am an internal evaluator at Gateway Technical College. I recently completed my Ph.D. in Leadership, Innovation, and Continuous Improvement, where I explored how public and nonprofit organizations can most effectively use evaluation results to support organizational learning and change. While completing my dissertation, I noticed a common pattern: many evaluation projects that led to meaningful improvements occurred during a leadership transition. Whether it was a new K-12 school superintendent, new board of directors, or new nonprofit program director, these transitions offered a unique window for evaluation, learning, and improvement.
Hi! I’m Nishat Akhi, a doctoral student from Bangladesh studying at Boston College and an AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) scholar. During my internship with Intention 2 Impact (I2I), I expected to learn new methods and better understand how evaluators measure systems change. I did. But my most important learning came from watching how
