My name is Sheena Horton, Senior Analyst at MGT of America, Inc., and Private Sector Representative and Board Member for theSoutheast Evaluation Association (SEA). I have been in the evaluation field professionally since 2008, and would like to offer a few tips from my experience breaking into the evaluation field. Lesson Learned: Evaluation opportunities are …
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I am Andrea Guajardo, Director of Community Health for CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System and a doctoral student at the University of the Incarnate Word seeking a PhD focused on Organizational Leadership and Program Evaluation. My role at the hospital provides numerous opportunities for evaluation of community-based programs as well as community collaborations, but the …
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Greetings my name is Maurice Samuels and I’m a Lead Evaluation and Research Associate at Outlier Research and Evaluation, CEMSE|University of Chicago. Our group recently hosted an American Evaluation Association Graduate Education Diversity Intern (GEDI). This was a wonderful opportunity for me and my colleagues to influence the development of a new member to the …
Greetings AEA and evaluation family, we’re Stafford Hood, professor, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign and Director, Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) and Rodney Hopson, professor, George Mason University and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Education Policy and Evaluation. We are members of the AEA Multi-Ethnic Issue TIG, having been long time members and …
My name is Ray Kennard Haynes and I am an Assistant Professor at Indiana University- Bloomington and I have a keen interest domestic racial Diversity in Higher Education (HE). Since the 1970s the United States (U.S.) has attempted to address Diversity by focusing primarily on race and gender through Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) legislation. This …
Hello! I’m Nicole Clark, a licensed social worker and independent evaluator for Nicole Clark Consulting. I specialize in working with organizations and agencies to design, implement, and evaluate programs and services specifically for women and young women of color. Young women of color (YWOC) face many issues, including racism, sexism, ageism, immigrant status, socioeconomic status, and …
Hi again, I’m Dominica McBride, Founder and CEO of Become: Center for Community Engagement and Social Change. A few weeks ago, I wrote a tip on the importance of cultural competence. I wrote on the perpetual sociopolitical dilemmas we face as a society. Today, I’m providing a way to contribute to alleviating these issues. Start …
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Hello loyal readers! I am Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor and I’m looking for a partner! Get Involved: We’re looking for an aea365 intern – a volunteer curator willing to donate perhaps an hour or two a week to help aea365 continue its commitment to maintaining a high quality daily …
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Kirk Knestis, here, CEO of Hezel Associates—a research and evaluation firm specializing in education innovations. Like many of you, I’ve participated in “evaluation versus research” conversations. That distinction is certainly interesting, but our work in studying science, technology, engineering, and math education (STEM) leaves me more intrigued with what I call the “NSF Conundrum”—confusion among …
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Did we get your attention? We hope so. We are Carla Hillerns and Pei-Pei Lei – survey enthusiasts at the Office of Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. An email subject line can be a powerful first impression of an online survey. It has the potential to convince someone to open your …
