My name is Delaney Wellington (she/her), and I’m an Evaluation Associate at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). WCS runs five New York City wildlife parks – the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, New York Aquarium, Prospect Park Zoo, and Queens Zoo – and conducts conservation work and research around the world. I study the impacts …
Aye! I’m David Hanson, a Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) scholar and a fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program Delaware River Watershed Network (DEWN). Recently, during an in-person DEWN meetup, we dove into a fascinating conversation about power dynamics in environmental leadership. Since the concept of power is something I’ve delved into deeply …
EPE TIG Week: Beyond Humanity: Rethinking Power in Honor of Earth Week by David Hanson Read More »
Hello Reader! I am Michelle Eckman, the Director of Evaluation for Mass Audubon, a Massachusetts-wide conservation organization. I am proud to be the first full-time internal evaluator of this organization. Before this role, I evaluated an environmental education program for my master’s thesis and have spent the past 20+ years as an environmental educator and …
EPE TIG Week: High Tides Raise All Ships by Michelle Eckman Read More »
I’m DeDee Ludwig-Palit, a researcher at Inform Evaluation & Research, a board member for the Arizona Evaluation Network, and a PhD student at Texas Tech University. Inform specializes in program evaluation, visitor studies, and educational research for STEM and conservation education institutions. Our experience working with environmental organizations has shown that empathy and compassionate feelings …
We are David Hanson (Senior Consultant, Social Contract) and Evan Kuras (Evaluation Consultant, MXM Research Group), two mid-level environmental evaluators finding our way through professional and leadership journeys. As reflexive evaluators motivated by issues at the intersection of the environment and social justice, we have both found it challenging to find professional development, mentorship, and …
Hello! I’m Rupu Gupta, Senior Scientist for Social Sciences and Evaluation at the Hudson River Foundation, and Program Chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Environmental Program Evaluation (EPE) TIG. I’ve been thinking a lot about what keeps all of us who are invested in environmental welfare motivated and excited. Environmental evaluators are part of a …
EPE TIG Week: Finding Hope and Optimism in Environmental Work by Rupu Gupta Read More »
Hi! We are Brittany Dernberger and Florence Santos, and we lead efforts to measure systems-level change and impact at CARE—an international development and humanitarian NGO focused on women and girls. For the better part of a year, we led an innovative, local-to-global systems-level change evaluation of CARE’s impact on COVID-19 vaccinations. This was quite challenging, especially …
OL-ECB TIG Week: Learn-by-Doing to Refine Systems-Level Change by Brittany Dernberger Read More »
Hello, I am Xin Xin Yang, a Multi-Country Evaluation Specialist in the East Asia and Pacific Region of UNICEF. In this blog, I will illustrate how translating international evaluation guidance, such as the OECD/DAC evaluation criteria and glossary, can be a strategic intervention to enhance national evaluation capacity. I will draw on the experiences of …
I’m Allison Prieur (she/her), an independent consultant and evaluation PhD student from Essex County, Ontario, Canada. I’m interested in building evaluation capacity to support human service non-profits to advance system change and social justice. I’ve taken some courses in Organizational Change Leadership at Western Michigan University as part of my PhD program. Lessons Learned I’ve …
OL-ECB TIG Week: Embracing Resistance to Build Evaluation Capacity by Allison Prieur Read More »
Greetings! I am Dr. Albertina Lopez, director at the Center for Evaluation Innovation where we partner with philanthropy on strategy, learning, and evaluation efforts that intend to further racial equity and social justice. Today I’d like to discuss how organizations can truly learn their values through sharing a valuable framework and lessons we have learned …
OL-ECB TIG Week: Organizational Learning About Values by Albertina Lopez Read More »
