Hi, I’m Joanna Prout! I do research and program evaluation, however I started my career as a therapist and psychologist. I spent years watching clients struggle to get effective and accessible treatment and support. Seeing these struggles showed me our need to get information to make services more accessible and effective, so I pursued a career in research.
I’m Amy Kracker Selzer, and I’m a Senior MEL Specialist working with USAID. I’ve worked in international development research for many years. Through that work, I’ve found that while some qualitative data collection participants embrace the opportunity to share their perspectives and tell their stories, for others, sharing the depth of information that makes for rich qualitative work doesn’t come as naturally. In these instances, I’ve found maps to be a particularly useful tool to help people organize their thoughts about a topic and generate conversation, especially when collecting data about community evolution and change.
My name is Esther Nolton, and I am the Immediate Past President for Washington Evaluators. Like many of us in the field, I identify as an “accidental evaluator”—a person who stumbled upon evaluation and stuck around. As I reflect on my journey to and through evaluation, I am amazed by how intentional and logical my path has actually been. I hope my story provides an example of the fascinating ways in which people become evaluators.
Hi! I’m Natalie Donahue. I work in the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ Monitoring Evaluation Learning and Innovation (MELI) Unit and am proud to be this year’s Washington Evaluators President.
We are excited to share some useful tips for creating visually appealing findings reports for federal clients. Allow us to introduce the team—Jessie Rouder, Alyssa Contreras, Samantha Hubbard, Chloe Bryen, Michelle Segall, and Cindy Hockaday are based in ICF’s Public Health Solutions portfolio. In late 2022, the team supported the creation of several reports to disseminate key …
Hello! I’m Amelia Kohm of Data Viz for Nonprofits (DVN). DVN helps organizations to quickly grasp their data, improve their work, and show their impact and offers up weekly 60-Second Data Tips to those in the nonprofit world. Rad Resources Have you played around with charts in Canva? It’s a great, free online design tool. …
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Hello! My name is Christy King. I am the Internal Evaluator for Pennsylvania’s State GEAR UP grant. Since I began working on the grant almost 8 years ago, one of my endeavors has been to provide data visualizations that are useful to a variety of roles. One aspect of this endeavor is being open to …
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Hello AEA365 community! I am Zoraya Cruz-Bonilla. I work as a Data Research Analyst in the Division of Student Affairs at Binghamton University. If you have ever had the privilege of performing text analytics with open-source PDF files, then you understand the innate challenges – they are not standardized for easy extraction. In fact, a simple copy/paste can lead to more tedious manual steps in order to maintain structural integrity.
Hello! We are Morgan Buras-Finlay and Caitlyn Bukaty. I, Caitlyn, have served as a leader of the AEA Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations (DUP) TIG for many years and work as a research associate at the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston. I, Morgan, am an evaluator and researcher, and also identify as hard of …
Hello! I’m Alva Gachupin, evaluation and research coordinator at the Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation. Located on the lands of Santa Ana Pueblo N.M, NB3 Foundation is a Native-led nonprofit leading the way to improve Native American children’s health. The NB3 Foundation invests in community-driven, culturally rooted programs that provide opportunities for Native youth to …
