Greetings friends! I’m Christen Pentek, a youthworker in the Twin Cities. I rather stumbled into evaluation, trying to figure out how to nourish critical consciousness in community in sustainable ways. This is a post about vulnerability, inspired by the grounded research of Brene Brown. Rad Resources: One ‘rad resource’ is Brene Brown’sTed Talk, capturing reflections …
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We are Natalie Wilkins and Shakiyla Smith from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As public health scientists and evaluators, we are charged with achieving and measuring community and population level impact in injury and violence prevention. The public health model includes: (1) defining the problem, (2) …
Hi! I am Cathy Lesesne and I work at ICF International doing public health related evaluation and research. My passion is doing work that affects the lives of adolescents, particularly those with the most need and the least voice in how to meet those needs. I do a lot of work in and with schools …
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I am Carrie Lippy, an independent evaluator working with community-based and culturally specific domestic violence agencies. For the last two years, I have worked closely with the NW Network, an agency providing intervention and prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) survivors of abuse. Thinking about community-level impacts often brings to mind …
Hi! My name is Amy Hilgendorf and I am the Associate Director for Engaged Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies (the CommNS). We specialize in community-based action research and evaluation partnerships with grassroots and nonprofit groups and offer support to others who do this work. In recent years, we …
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My name is Courtney Barnard and I am a social worker, coalition coordinator, and program evaluator for a children’s health care system in Fort Worth, Texas. Lessons Learned: I recently attended a workshop on local children’s health data and racial equity. I quickly realized that, though with good intentions, my colleagues and I often conflate …
My name is Brian Hoessler, and I am the founder and principal of Strong Roots Consulting in Saskatoon, Canada. Actually, my business cards refer to me as Connector-in-Chief, because that’s how I see my evaluation and research work with non-profits: connecting questions with data, dreams with designs, and plans with reality. I also see my …
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My name is Spectra Myers, and I am a graduate student at the University of Minnesota’s Organizational Leadership Policy and Development working on a Masters in Evaluation Studies. I have been working closely with a Minneapolis agency addressing homelessness among youth on a service evaluation. The project included fielding a paper survey, data entry and …
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Hi, I’m Angelina Lopez. At the New York City Department of Education’s iZone, we create visual reports to share our progress and what we are learning about edtech and blended learning initiatives. Our team uses these reports, sharing them as PDFs or Google Slides, for meetings with staff, department teams, and project partners. While long-form …
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I’m Emma Perk, Project Manager at The Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University. I find evaluation to be very informative and important, but feel that there is a disconnect when it comes to sharing and implementing the results. I am very interested in data visualization, but today I am here to talk about another avenue—video. Video …
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