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Greetings, we are Karyl Askew, Monifa Beverly, and Angelicque Tucker Blackmon, three Black cisgender women evaluators who specialize in culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE). We are continually in reflection with one another about what it means to be and journey as CREE evaluators. As we reflected on this week’s topic, we discussed the journey …
I’m Geri Peak, founder of Two Gems Consulting Services. I believe we must transform ourselves continually in order to contribute successfully to the advancement of society. The Virtues Project expanded my capacity to communicate ideas about the people and programs I support. Now I regularly promote virtues as descriptors and metrics and integrate the Five …
Connecting the Intra/Inter/Structural Week: Virtues that Measure Us by Geri Peak Read More »
Greetings! I am Hazel Symonette. I have been an active member of the AEA community since 1993 serving, for example, on the Board; Co-Chair of the AEA Building Diversity Initiative and Co-Chair, the Multi-Ethnic Issues TIG; AEA Representative to the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation and now, At-Large Member; Task Force Member for …
Greetings! I’m Vidhya Shanker, an interdependent evaluator of South Indian, oppressive-caste ancestry settled on the traditional homelands of the Dakota. I’m writing about the latest iteration in my quest to unlearn the binaries inherent in colonial knowledge systems and (post)positivism, which continue to underlie most evaluation and social sector work. I’ll offer some examples that …
Hi, I’m Libby Smith (they/them). I’m an educator, evaluator, and organizational healing consultant. I’m a white, queer person who has spent a lot of time reflecting on their gender this past year. Currently I live and work on Anishinaabe land known as Menomonie, WI. I’ve spent the better part of my nearly 50 years living …
Hello fellow humans. My name is Anna Martin (she/her). I am an Evaluator, Social Worker, Facilitator, Complexity Coach, curious mischief maker and co-founder of Picture Impact. I have partnered with a designer (Katrina Mitchell) and it couldn’t be a happier work marriage—bringing forth new skills, perspectives and project roles. Evaluation and Design are wonderful trans-disciplines …
I’m Lisa Kaczmarczyk, owner of Lisa Kaczmarczyk PhD Consulting, LLC. My company works with academic STEM researchers on large federally funded projects. My clients often expect me to gather data that provides them insight into what other people think about their project. Although not in my SOWs, sometimes the success of the project depends upon …
IC TIG Week: Stepping Outside the SOW to Help a Project Succeed by Lisa Kaczmarczyk Read More »
Good morning from a hot summer day in Louisiana! My name is Alicia B. Kiremire, owner of FlowStream Management, LLC. As an engineer turned independent evaluation consultant, I’d love to share four engineering lessons that have been super helpful in my evaluation work. Lessons Learned: #1: Nurture a “systems” way of thinking. In engineering, we …
IC TIG Week: 4 Lessons Learned from Engineering by Alicia B. Kiremire Read More »
My name is Ebony Reddock. I am the owner of Bumblebee Design and Evaluation and a Senior Evaluation Consultant at Michigan Public Health Institute. When I decided to start my own business, in part I did it to be able to structure my practice in service to Southeastern Michigan more deliberately than I could as …
IC TIG Week: Work Where You Live, Live Where You Work by Ebony Reddock Read More »
