Nathan Browning here. I am an independent evaluation & research consultant. I am blessed to work with a lot of different kinds of clients. I occasionally write prose. I am cruising. I am cruising toward truth. I am cruising toward truth through Evaluation Highway. I meander across the thoroughfare, violating dashed lines, slowing to feel […]
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We are the Hamai Consulting team, comprising two long-time team members, Tamara Hamai, Ph.D., who founded the company in 2008, and Ibiaso Adajames (Project Manager), MBA, PMP, who first joined the team in 2014, and two new team members, Kadijah Williams, MA, and Zachariah Rabah, MA, MS, who joined the team as Organizational Development Assistants
We are Nora Murphy Johnson, A. Rafael Johnson, and Molly O’Connor, writing about creativity and why we at Inspire to Change treat creativity as absolutely critical to evaluation practice. Michael Quinn Patton wrote Creative Evaluation in 1981. His words ring true today, more than forty years later: “Creativity is essential to situational responsiveness. If one
Hello! I’m Norma Martínez-Rubin, a California-based independent evaluation consultant and aspiring harmonica player. I’m attracted to the practical, accessible, and marvelous. To me, creativity typically conjures musical endeavors and the dramatic and visual arts produced in the entertainment field. It’s likely we’ve all enjoyed the arts as patrons and supporters. There’s even more fun when,
Welcome to the Independent Consultants week! I’m Lisa Kaczmarczyk, Owner of Lisa Kaczmarczyk PhD Consulting, LLC and 2022 Chair of the IC TIG. Our TIG members, often referred to affectionately as IC TIGgers, are an incredibly active and engaged group (some of you may remember from childhood stories that certain Tiggers like to Bounce). IC
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Hello there! We’re Kendra Thompson-Dyck, Ph.D. and Deven Wisner, M.S. of Assessment and Research at the University of Arizona. We want to share an insights to action approach we used to share information and get feedback/buy-in from constituent groups. We think this could work for many projects, regardless of topic. Recently, we set out to
We are Kristin Giordano and Carise Mitch of Equal Measure, where we partner with foundations, nonprofits, and government organizations to apply new ways of thinking and learning to advance social change. In 2020, Equal Measure launched an internal Data Visualization Learning Circle, combining discussion and reflection with the invaluable Ann Emery’s Depict Data Studio online
Hi there! It’s Manon, Meredith, Emily, Anika and Whitney, and we are a group of Public Health Analysts, Evaluators, and Epidemiologists at RTI International – an independent, nonprofit research institute. We are passionate about creating engaging evaluation products, so we banded together as champions of data viz to improve how our organization shares project findings.
Greetings fellow evaluators. I am excited to share my experiences and lessons learned in our effort to improve access to and use of data in decision making through the development and use of a web-based interactive dashboard. My name is John Manda, and I am the Learning and Dissemination Advisor on the United States Agency
Hi. I am David Fetterman, President of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consultation firm. I am a past-president of the American Evaluation Association and a co-chair of the Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation TIG. In addition, I have 25 years of experience at Stanford University as an administrator and faculty member. I am also the
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