LGBT TIG Week: A Deeper Love: LGBTQ2S-Centered Anti-Oppressive, Equitable Evaluation in Practice by Michael Petillo & Rory Neuner

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 29, 2021

Hello! We’re Michael Petillo (he/they) with CES Partnership, LLC, and Rory Neuner (she/her) with the Barr Foundation. In today’s Pride Week post, we’re excited to explore what an anti-oppression evaluation practice means, and how it can empower LGBTQ2S people (among others, too!).  Anti-Oppression & LGBTQ2S   Oppression is understood as the disempowerment, marginalization, and/or silencing …

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LGBT TIG Week: The Revolution Will Not Be Surveyed: Resisting Erasure and Othering of LGBTQ2S+ Community by Esrea Perez-Bill & Michael Petillo

1 Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / May 29, 2021

Hello! We are Esrea Perez-Bill (she/her/they/them) with the EDIT Program at Northwestern University and Michael Petillo (he/him/they/them) with CES Partnership, LLC. We are emerging evaluators and creative researchers inviting you to coalition in radical solidarity with us against the othering/erasure of LGBTQ2S+ people (title invoking Gil Scott-Heron).     Learn about land acknowledgement and the Indigenous …

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LGBT TIG Week: LGBTQ sex ed can work!: Lessons and tips from evaluating an LGBTQ sex ed program by Ash Philliber

Leave a Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / May 29, 2021

Hi everyone. I’m Ash Philliber (they/them), a Senior Research Associate at Philliber Research and Evaluation. Recently, I was lucky enough to work with Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands on the randomized control evaluation of IN·clued: Inclusive Health Care – Youth and Providers Empowered. This program is an educational intervention designed …

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LGBT TIG Week: Shining a light on LGBTQ+ professionals in STEM by Veronica S. Smith

Leave a Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues, STEM Education and Training / May 29, 2021

I am Veronica S. Smith, founder and lead scientist of data2insight, a culturally responsive measurement, evaluation, and assessment firm with team members across the United States. I am also a 52-year-old white, bisexual, cisgender woman who has been educated, trained, and working in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professions for 30 years. Because of …

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LGBT TIG Week: Good Relations, Chosen Family: Solidarity Building for Indigenous & 2SLGBTQ+ Research and Evaluation by Dylan Felt & Waapalaneexkweew AKA Nicky Bowman

1 Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / May 29, 2021

Koolamalsi/Hello! We are Dylan Felt (she/they) and Waapalaneexkweew AKA Dr. Nicky Bowman (Mohican/Lunaape; she/her), here to talk about 2SLGBTQ+ and Indigenous solidarity, love, and family. In both our Indigenous and transgender communities, storytelling occupies a sacred space. We want to embrace that space and share with you the story of our research and evaluation partnership, …

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Best of AEA365 LGBT TIG Week: Identity as a Compass within 2SLGBTQ Evaluations: Finding Your Compass by Andrew Hartman, Brian Hoessler, Carolyn Camman & Vincent Tom

Leave a Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / May 29, 2021

Curators’ note: Identity is such a crucial component in LGBTQ evaluation. With that in mind, we’re rerunning this article from 2020 to highlight a unique take on identity as a “Best of AEA365” feature. Hello! We are Andrew Hartman, Brian Hoessler, Carolyn Camman and Vincent Tom – 2SLGBTQ evaluators from upper Turtle Island located throughout Western Canada. …

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LGBT TIG Week: Becoming an evaluation ally to international LGBTI civil society organizations by Robin Lin Miller

1 Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / May 29, 2021

I am Robin Lin Miller, Professor at Michigan State University, where I direct doctoral training in Community Psychology and am Associate Director of the Masters’ Degree and Certificate in Program Evaluation. When the Covid-19 pandemic turned the world upside down, I was finishing an evaluation of a multi-country human rights advocacy initiative to challenge barriers …

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ICCE TIG Week: Livaluate by going within by Hayat Askar

1 Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / May 28, 2021

Hi AEA365 community, Marhaba! My name is Hayat Askar, a Monitoring and Evaluation professional from Jordan and the Vice-president of Jordan Development Evaluation Association (EvalJordan). When Covid-19 first hit the world, I was like many others: scared, confused, worried about how this might impact my life, the life of my family, and the ones I …

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ICCE TIG Week: Embedding inclusive accountability by building trust by Jeremy Danz & Dhaval Kothari

1 Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / May 28, 2021

Hello everyone. We are Jeremy Danz and Dhaval Kothari, co-founders of The ADMEL Lab, a collaborative focusing on embedding inclusive accountability in M&E frameworks. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have worked on COVID-19 contact tracing programs in Massachusetts and Washington and on corruption and governance programs throughout South Asia, as well as …

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ICCE TIG Week: Meeting The Moment at Minwashin Lodge by Florence Etta

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / June 4, 2021

My name is Florence Etta (she/her), currently a Principal Consultant, researcher, monitoring and evaluation expert focusing on gender equality, equity and human rights with GRAIDE International Consultants Limited, Nigeria http://graideinternational.org/. I serve as Associate Editor of the African Evaluation Journal (aejonline.org). Late last year I was interviewed by the Melissa Pomeroy and Rogerio Silva of …

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