AEA365 Contributor, Curated by Elizabeth Grim

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 …

Urban Institute Week: Updating the Urban Institute Data Visualization Style Guide and Why You Should Build One Too by Jonathan Schwabish Read More »

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 …

Urban Institute Week: Preparing for Equitable Participatory Evaluation by Elsa Falkenburger and Lauren Farrell Read More »

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 …

Urban Institute Week: Elevating Native American Voice in Community Research by Lizzy Ferrara and Emily Wright Read More »

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 …

Urban Institute Week: Improve Your Findings by Engaging Communities Around Data by Anna Farr and Teresa Derrick-Mills Read More »

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 …

Urban Institute Week: Targeting Email Marketing to Increase Impact by Olivia Dunn, Jenna Williams, and Jimena Vallejo Read More »