Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse

CEA Week: Partnerships for Networking and Evaluation Capacity Building by Lisa Aponte-Soto

Hello! ¡Saludos! I’m Lisa Aponte-Soto, an AEA GEDI alumna, Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse (La RED) TIG chair, and CEA local affiliate member. I currently serve as Associate Director of Community Engaged Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. La RED and CEA foster communities of practice to exchange ideas and enhance collective learning around evaluation …

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LA RED TIG Week: Polycephaly and the Evaluator of Color by Wanda Casillas

My name is Wanda Casillas, and I am an evaluator with Deloitte Consulting, LLC. I am a member of LA RED, the MIE TIG, and an alum of AEA’s GEDI Program. I have been privileged to be under the care of AEA’s community since I was born into the evaluation world. I have been mentored, …

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LA RED TIG Week: Latina/o Evaluation – Mentoring by Art Hernandez

My name is Art Hernandez, Visiting Professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. I was an AEA MSI Fellow early on and have served as the Director for several cohorts – most recently this past year. I serve and have served as evaluator and teacher of evaluation and am very …

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LA RED TIG Week: Valuing Bilingual/Bicultural Evaluators’ Communication Skills to Engage Audiences by Norma Martínez-Rubin

¡Hola!/Hello! My name is Norma Martínez-Rubin and I am a bilingual health educator and program evaluator. I’ve had the privilege of being considered a liaison by program administrators interested in engaging their Latino/a, Spanish-speaking constituencies for program development and/or improvement. By designing linguistically appropriate surveys and focus groups on collaborative projects, my evaluation colleagues and …

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LA RED TIG Week: Social capital, community and access: Lessons toward workforce diversity by Silvia Mazzula

Hello! I’m Silvia Mazzula, Counseling Psychologist, Associate Professor at John Jay College and the founding director of the Latina Researchers Network (LRN) –  a research-based and multidisciplinary network with over 3,000 members nationwide. Over the past five years, I have led LRN’s design, incubation and evaluation efforts. The purpose of LRN is to increase the …

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LA RED TIG Week: LatCrit Revisited by Leah C. Neubauer

I am Leah C. Neubauer with the Program in Public Health at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.  I serve as Past-President of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA) and the co-chair of AEA’s Local Affiliate Collaborative (LAC). This posts revisits LatCrit Theory as a framework for advancing Latino-focused evaluation dialogues and scholarship.   Hot Tips …

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LA RED TIG Week: Latinx Evaluator Presence and Leadership by Lisa Aponte-Soto

¡Saludos! I am Lisa Aponte-Soto co-chair of the Latina/o Responsive Evaluation Discourse (LA RED) TIG, AEA GEDI alumni, and National Program Deputy Director of RWJF New Connections at Equal Measure. This week LA RED highlights ways to advance the presence and leadership of Latinx evaluators and researchers in AEA to foster culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) …

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Labor Day Week: Andrea Guajardo on Honoring Mariana Enriquez

This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). My name is Andrea Guajardo, MPH, and I am the Director of Community Health at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System in San Antonio, Texas. I am also the co-Chair of the Multiethnic Issue in Evaluation …

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Labor Day Week: Saúl I. Maldonado on Honoring Debra Joy Pérez

This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). I’m Saúl I. Maldonado, assistant professor of education at San Diego State University, AEA GEDI alumnus, and co-chair of LA RED TIG . Why I chose to honor this evaluator: LA RED honors Debra Joy Pérez, PhD, Chief Measurement, Evaluation and …

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Labor Day Week: Lisa Aponte-Soto on Honoring Arthur E. Hernandez

This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). ¡Saludos! Greetings! I am Lisa Aponte-Soto, National Program Deputy Director of RWJF New Connections and Director at Equal Measure, AEA GEDI alumna, and LA RED TIG Chair. Why I chose to honor this evaluator: LA …

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