Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse

Hello! My name is Toi Wise. I am an Evaluation and Data Specialist for the education department at Enlace Chicago, a community-based nonprofit organization which serves a predominantly Latinx/e neighborhood. I also serve as the Secretary for AEA’s local affiliate, the Chicagoland Evaluation Association. This year, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to …

La RED TIG Week: A Collaborative Approach to Program Evaluation by Toi Wise Read More »

Hello, my name is Elia H. Bueno, and I am a fifth year PhD student at the University of Arizona studying Human Development and Family Science with a minor in Program Evaluation. In my research, I am interested in learning about the role of Latinx families in adolescents’ and emerging adults’ academic as well as …

La RED TIG Week: Reflections of an Emerging Culturally Responsive Evaluator by Elia H. Bueno Read More »

Good day! I am Art Hernandez, a Professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in Texas. As an evaluator and teacher of evaluation, I am interested in the processes of cultural responsiveness in theory and practice, especially concerning measurement and assessment. Currently, I am a member of the Expanding the Bench™ Advisory Board and a mentor for the Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) Program.  I also have the honor of serving on the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation.

Hola a tod@s somos dos evaluadores centroamericanos, Martha Hernández Martinez y Erick Antonio Aragón, compartiendo experiencias y perspectivas de llevar a cabo nuestro trabajo de una forma transformadora. Queremos compartir con ustedes nuestra reflexión acerca del universo de posibilidades, lecturas, interpretaciones, perspectivas y análisis que existe en una base de datos en Excel o en un archivo de datos en SPSS bajo el lente de la identidad.

Hola!  We are Susana Morales and Alisha Garcia Flores, proud co-chairs of the LaRED TIG. For the past couple years we have had the privilege of building a community with our fellow LaRED members. The Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse TIG (LaRED) meets monthly via zoom throughout the year. Our mission is to increase representation, engagement and leadership of Latina/o and other evaluators in theory, research and practice of culturally responsive evaluation especially involving the Latina/o community through the development of sustainable avenues for the development and application of Latina/o responsive evaluation theory and practice.

Hola, we are the Center for Public and Nonprofit Management (CPNM) team at University of Central Florida.  My name is Maritza Concha, Director of the Center and Rasha Mannaa is my graduate assistant.  CPNM’s main goal is to provide capacity building services to nonprofit organizations including training and technical assistance on program evaluation. In April of 2022, my center coordinated, in collaboration with an international committee, the first virtual Participatory Action Research and Evaluation Conference also known as PAREC. The conference’s theme focused on working towards the Sustainable Development Goals through participatory research and evaluation empowering the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) community. The conference had the following three main objectives:

Hello everyone! We are Martha Hernández Martínez, MPA, Kshitiz Karki, MPP, Samuel Leguizamon Grant, PhD., and Rebecca Saito, MA. We are part of the staff at Rainbow Research, and we identify ourselves as members of the Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), immigrant and refugee communities in Minnesota. We want to share with you our thoughts and experiences with decolonizing practices. Through some reflections and examples, we will share what we have learned.

Hola, my name is Susana Morales and I am so excited to be sharing with fellow evaluation practitioners. My work focuses on bicultural and bilingual evaluations with an emphasis on community health and community economic development. I come to this work from the belief that evaluation can create revolutions and demonstrate impact in communities of …

LA RED TIG WEEK: How to Institute an Internal Culture of Evaluation by Susana Morales Read More »

Hello LaRED TIG! We are Jessica Saucedo, a PhD student studying community psychology and Tatiana Elisa Bustos, PhD, with interests in health equity research, implementation science, and equitable evaluation with Indigenous and Latinx communities. Lately, we’ve been reflecting on how our positionality or stance influences any evaluation or research work. From Jessica I am a …

LA RED TIG WEEK: What about Positionality? A Brief Reflection on How We Can Approach Participatory and Equity Evaluation by Jessica Saucedo and Tatiana Elisa Bustos Read More »