I am Kristin Woods, 2013-2014 co-chair for the GSNE TIG; I am a PhD student at Oklahoma State University in the Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics program and a faculty member at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. I attended my first AEA conference in 2012 and was overwhelmed by the number of people and sessions as …
My name is Andrea Guajardo and I am the Director of Community Health for CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System and a doctoral student at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. I have been a member of AEA for exactly one year, and in that year, I was selected for the Minority …
Hello loyal aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Thank you for being “here” today and reading this post! As I was searching for inspiration for this Saturday’s post, I turned to our aea365 archives and found a post from fall 2010 by Susan Kistler (thank you Susan!) that really …
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I am Andrea Guajardo, MPH and I am the Director of Community Health at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System in San Antonio, Texas. I am also a doctoral student seeking the PhD in Education at the University of the Incarnate Word, and I enjoyed the distinct honor of being selected to participate in the Minority …
My name is Edilberto A. Raynes. I am an Associate Professor from the Tennessee State University. I am one of the five MSI Fellows from 2013-2014. I am coming in to the fellowship program with minimal background in evaluation. However, I have broad experiences in conducting social research in an academic institution. I have noticed …
My name is Denise Gaither-Hardy. I am an Assistant Professor at The Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. I want to share a few thoughts about my experience as a member of American Evaluation Association (AEA) and Minority Serving Institution Fellow (MSI) during the past year. My five member cohort was led by Art Hernandez, Professor and …
My name is Tamara Bertrand Jones and I am an Assistant Professor at Florida State University. During the MSI Fellows program I evaluated an international professional development program for faculty and K-12 teachers. The program developers had designed the evaluation component and it was subsequently approved with the rest of the proposal by the funding …
My name is Ana R. Pinilla. I am a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Graduate Clinical Psychology at The Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. After finishing a year at the AEA Minority Serving Institute (MSI) Fellowship in October 2014, I am happy to share the lessons learned in teaching evaluation, through my experience …
My name is Art Hernandez and I am a Professor and Dean at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. I participated in one of the very early yearlong experiences as a Fellow and have served as the Director for several cohorts. I have served as evaluator and teacher or evaluation and am very interested in the …
My name is Megan Grimaldi, and I work for the Research, Evaluation, and Innovation department of Communities In Schools. This year, I was happy to serve as the program chair for the Internal Evaluation TIG at the AEA conference in Denver. Lessons Learned: One of my favorite things about the AEA conference is that it …
