Lela Aisha Jones is a movement performance artist and Director of Dance at Bryn Mawr College, and Marcel W. Foster is the founder of Performance Hypothesis and a published enthusiast for culturally responsive evaluation. Together, we explore how dance and choreography can transform the way we map and evaluate our world.
Hi there! We’re Ransford and Cris, an evaluation team with the University of Florida and Performance Hypothesis.
I am Godfrey Slavius, Managing Director of the Africa Regional Centre for the International Youth Media Summit and based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
My name is Melinda Šefcic, PhD, and I am a visual artist, researcher, and educator from Croatia. For more than a decade, I have been developing and evaluating mural interventions in hospitals and prisons, exploring how art can contribute to wellbeing, dignity, and the human experience of institutional spaces.
Hello! We’re Dr. Dana Smiles and Dr. Angelicque Tucker Blackmon, evaluators and researchers who are passionate about designing creative evaluation experiences that are both rigorous and deeply human.
Jenica serves as the lead for the Health Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) for the American Evaluation Association (AEA). Marcel Foster, MPH, is the co-founder and CEO of Performance Hypothesis and serves as the Chair for the Arts, Culture, and Museum TIG for AEA. We believe that AEA is at its strongest when our various groups learn across boundaries.
I’m Dr. Emely Medina-Rodriguez, former chair of the Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse AEA TIG (LaRED TIG). Through my work with Latinx/e communities and my involvement in LaRED, I’ve focused on creating spaces where Latinx/e evaluators can connect, learn from one another, and bring their lived experiences into the evaluation field. I’m excited to continue supporting LaRED’s vision of greater representation, collaboration, and leadership among Latinx/e evaluators.
Hello! I’m Arthur Hernández, an evaluator and educator whose work focuses on evaluation, community engagement, and the forms of knowledge we authorize as credible.
Generalizability, Qualitative Evaluation, and the Demands of CREE by Arthur Hernández Read More »
Hello, I’m Blanca Flor Guillen-Woods, Managing Partner at Strategic Learning Partners for Innovation (SLP4i), a social innovation and evaluation firm led by evaluators of color. I have conducted a variety of mixed-methods evaluations related to education, youth services, civic engagement, health, and intervention programs for over 25 years. Through a collaborative approach, my work at SLP4i supports programs and funders in clarifying contexts, desired outcomes, and impacts, identifying levers of change, and implementing strategic plans driven by community voice.
LaRED TIG Week: Evaluation with Purpose by Blanca Flor Guillen-Woods Read More »
I’m Dr. Emely Medina-Rodriguez, an evaluator and researcher who is passionate about making evaluation more meaningful, inclusive, and useful. Throughout my career, I’ve been especially interested in creating spaces where people, particularly young people and communities whose voices are often overlooked, can share their experiences in ways that feel authentic to them. I enjoy finding creative ways to make research more engaging and accessible by listening, building trust, sharing power, and creating opportunities for people to shape the questions and conversations that matter to them.
