AEA365 Contributor, Curated by Elizabeth DiLuzio

Hello, we are Emily Costello, Julia Bleser, Tracy Wharton, Shakiera Causey, and Oscar Espinosa, and are the National Network of Public Health Institutes’ Research and Evaluation Team. For the last few years, we have been collaborating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to evaluate public health-focused programs addressing many of the challenges and …

Using Developmental Evaluation to Design and Implement Public Health Programs During Times of Crisis by Emily Costello, Julia Bleser, Tracy Wharton, Shakiera Causey, and Oscar Espinosa Read More »

Greetings, AEA365 readers. Elizabeth DiLuzio here, Lead Curator for the blog. If you’ve somehow missed the excitement, let me be the first to tell you: AEA’s first in-person conference since the pandemic began is kicking off tomorrow! The week opens with two and a half days of pre-conference workshops. Then, on Wednesday, the conference officially …

Conference Week Has Arrived! by Elizabeth DiLuzio Read More »

Greetings! We are Danuta Dobosz, Talatha Kiazolu-Reeves, Jillian Klarman, Michael Petillo, and Tiffany Smith, alumni of American University’s Measurement and Evaluation Program. We are here with Professor Beverly Peters; and Assetou Barry and Marshall Bailly, who regularly serve as practicum supervisors for AU students. This article on Alumni Perspectives is one in a three-part series …

Reflections on Practicum Assignments: Part II: Alumni Perspectives by Danuta Dobosz, Talatha Kiazolu-Reeves, Jillian Klarman, Michael Petillo, Tiffany Smith, Beverly Peters, Assetou Barry, and Marshall Bailly Read More »

I’m Geri Peak, Chief Insight Facilitator at Two Gems Consulting Services, where I practice exploring spiritual demography: coherence between universal principles and evaluative practice. In the quest to free our world from the ravages of far west eurasian imperialism, the word trickery with decolonization continues.  While increasingly popular, decolonization’s use veers from its true intent …

Decolonization in Evaluation Week: Is Evaluation for Liberation or Assimilation? by Geri Peak Read More »

Greetings from Vidhya Shanker and Diana Siegel-Garcia, inviting you on behalf of the American Evaluation Association’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Working Group and The May 13 Group to co-create the first “People’s History of Evaluation” at Eval 22: (re)shaping evaluation together! Still just an idea a few short months ago, The Power of Perspective: Generations …

Decolonization in Evaluation Week: What is Your DEI Journey? What Shaped Your Ancestors’ Journeys? by Vidhya Shanker and Diana Siegel-Garcia Read More »

We are Evaluation Studies PhD students at the University of Minnesota studying in Dr. John LaVelle’s Advanced Evaluation Theory class, in which he emphasizes the importance of relationships for reflexive practice. Our narratives weave what critical reflexivity can be for non-Indigenous practitioners in reconciliation through participatory sense-making based on our shared experiences engaging in intercultural …

Decolonization in Evaluation Week: Critical Reflexivity and the Experience of Becoming a Non-Indigineous, Indigenist Scholar by Katie Boone and Eleanor Fuchs Read More »

I am Rita Sinorita Fierro, Ph.D., CEO of Fierro Consulting, LLC, a firm that focuses on supporting trailblazing leaders to align internal practices and organizational culture with external results towards a humane world.  Since I published Digging Up the Seeds of white Supremacy in May 2022, I get this question a lot: “Why should white …

Decolonization in Evaluation Week: Liberation is a Giggle! by Rita Sinorita Fierro Read More »

Greetings good people, we are Albertina Lopez, Jewlya Lynn, Geri Peak, Michael Petillo, Aisha Rios, Vidhya Shanker & Susan Wolfe, the team of voices behind AEA session #5365, Voices of Decolonizing Evaluation: Moving from Discussion to Action.  Following on our blogs from last year, we are expanding the ongoing discourse on evaluation’s role in envisioning …

Decolonization in Evaluation Week: Voices of Decolonizing Evaluation Needs YOUR Voice by Albertina Lopez, Jewlya Lynn, Geri Peak, Michael Petillo, Aisha Rios, Vidhya Shanker & Susan Wolf Read More »

Hello everyone! I am Rita Sinorita Fierro, editor of this AEA365 week, sharing collective work in our evaluation field. No one transforms in isolation. Reading books and learning new vocabulary is great, but not enough. Personal and collective work transforms ourselves, our communities, and our world. We authors focus not only on what we do …

Decolonization in Evaluation Week: Decolonizing and Racial Healing as Bridge-building by Rita Sinorita Fierro Read More »