We’re Kathy Pettit and Leah Hendey, and we codirect the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP)—an almost-30-year-old network with partner organizations in 32 cities that helps local groups and people access and use to the data they need and the help they need to use it to ensure all neighborhoods are places where people can thrive. …
Artificial intelligence (AI) and automated systems are increasingly interwoven with the complex systems we engage with, such as housing, health care, and local government. We’re Judah Axelrod, Alena Stern, Jamie Carter, and Sonia Torres Rodríguez, data scientists and researchers who work with and study these tools every day. We’ve seen how important it is for …
My name is Jonathan Schwabish, and I’m a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, where I help colleagues improve how they visually communicate their work through better data visualizations and presentations. The Urban Institute data visualization team will soon publish an updated data visualization style guide. Though the first official Urban Institute Data Visualization Style …
Hello from the Urban Institute’s Community Engagement Resource Center (CERC)! We’re Elsa Falkenburger and Lauren Farrell, CERC’s director and deputy director. We spend our days visioning, planning, and acting to make research and evaluation more equitable and more rooted in community knowledge. Today, we want to build off Elizabeth DiLuzio’s great overview of participatory evaluation …
Researchers often have a reputation among Native communities similar to mosquitoes—they take what they need and leave, often without considering the impact of their actions or sharing the results with the community. We’re Lizzy Ferrara and Emily Wright, and we work on advancing equity-driven public health and justice with an emphasis on Indigenous communities. We as researchers …
My name is Anna Farr, and I’m a research analyst at the Urban Institute focused on increasing families’ access to resources and bringing lived experience to research. And I’m Teresa Derrick-Mills, a senior fellow with 30 years of experience as a practitioner and researcher studying and improving early care and education systems. We’re writing this …
Hi, we’re Olivia Dunn, Jenna Williams, and Jimena Vallejo, members of the email marketing team at the Urban Institute—a policy research organization whose mission is to drive impact by equipping changemakers with evidence and solutions. What matters to us is getting research into the hands of the people who will make it actionable. We achieve …
Hello! We are Nicole Walshe (Independent Consultant), Marta Arranz (Director, Climate SMILE Community of Practice), Amelia Abdelrazik (Director of Operations and Impact at 128 Collective), and Anna Ploeg (Community and Communications Manager, Climate SMILE Community of Practice). We have teamed up under the Climate SMILE Community of Practice to explore how climate funders can support collective learning and equitable knowledge for climate action, and we are delighted to share with this community what we have been learning.
Hello, my name is Dr. Adeyemo Adetogun (ETR Services LLC), originally from the Yoruba ethnic group in southwestern Nigeria, and I have lived experiences in other Western and Southern Africa. Impactful evaluation begins with cultural humility and a commitment to embracing perspectives beyond our own. When working with indigenous communities in Africa, it’s essential to …
We are Nicky Bowman, Charmagne Campbell-Patton, and Michael Quinn Patton, here to share about a partnership between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Bowman Performance Consulting, a native and women-owned evaluation firm. This is a story about decolonizing funding, partnerships, and design/implementation of a project and related processes. Our intergenerational and intersectional team brought together …
