Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues

Koolamalsi/Hello! We are Dylan Felt (she/they) and Waapalaneexkweew AKA Dr. Nicky Bowman (Mohican/Lunaape; she/her), here to talk about 2SLGBTQ+ and Indigenous solidarity, love, and family.  In both our Indigenous and transgender communities, storytelling occupies a sacred space. We want to embrace that space and share with you the story of our research and evaluation partnership, …

LGBT+ TIG Week: Good Relations, Chosen Family: Solidarity Building for Indigenous & 2SLGBTQ+ Research and Evaluation by Dylan Felt and Waapalaneexkweew AKA Nicky Bowman Read More »

My name is Cody Ingle, and I am a Queer evaluator in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I work for a nonprofit called Lost&Found that works in suicide prevention and postvention. I identify as a cisgender, gay male that uses he/him pronouns. I am new to the evaluation profession and have been an AEA member for …

LGBT+ TIG Week: Counting Matters—LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit Representation in Rural Areas by Cody Ingle Read More »

Hello! We are Esrea Perez-Bill (she/her/they/them) with the EDIT Program at Northwestern University and Michael Petillo (he/him/they/them) with CES Partnership, LLC. We are emerging evaluators and creative researchers inviting you to coalition in radical solidarity with us against the othering/erasure of LGBTQ2S+ people (title invoking Gil Scott-Heron).      Learn about land acknowledgement and the Indigenous lands …

LGBT+ TIG Week: The Revolution Will Not Be Surveyed: Resisting Erasure and Othering of LGBTQ2S+ Community by Esrea Perez-Bill and Michael Petillo Read More »

Greetings! My name is Lauren Dixon (they/them) with Centerstone’s Research Institute. As a queer in the Southern United States, I am developing my evaluative practice in a juxtaposition of old and new. My unsolicited advice to fellow emerging evaluators is to go beyond conventions of what we are told; to reimagine what this role can …

LGBT+ TIG Week: A Roadmap to Equitable Decision Making by Lauren Dixon  Read More »

Hi. We’re Alex Bauer, Dylan Felt, Amy Lippincott, Esrea Perez-Bill, Michael Petillo, JulieAnn Sickell, and Shepherd Tsosie. Throughout 2021-2022, a group of 7 LGBTQ+ evaluators worked together to craft an eStudy for AEA focused on philosophical, ethical, and methodological considerations in LGBTQ+ Evaluation practice. The eStudy is available from AEA, but today, we wanted to share …

LGBT+ TIG Week: Building a Liberatory Praxis Together: an eStudy by Alex Bauer, Dylan Felt, Amy Lippincott, Esrea Perez-Bill, Michael Petillo, JulieAnn Sickell, and Shepherd Tsosie Read More »

Hello, I’m Eric Barela, a California-based evaluator formerly of Salesforce and now a co-founder of Altruous. I identify as a cisgender gay man and my pronouns are he/him. I have been a member of AEA since 2000 and in those 20+ years, I have noticed several trends in our field that I believe have informed …

LGBT+ TIG Week: Trends That Have Influenced the Creation and Advancement of LGBTQ+ Evaluation by Eric Barela Read More »

Hello and welcome to another week of AEA 365 focused on LGBTQ+ Evaluation! We are Dylan Felt (she/her), Alex Bauer (she/her), Esrea Perez-Bill (she/they), and Amy Lippincott (she/her), and we are the newly elected LGBT TIG leadership team of TIG Co-Chairs (Dylan and Alex) and Co-Program Chairs (Esrea and Amy). We wanted to start this …

LGBT+ TIG Week: Meet the New LGBT+ TIG Leadership! by Dylan Felt, Alex Bauer, Esrea Perez-Bill, and Amy Lippincott Read More »

Please Note: This post was originally published during last year’s LGBT TIG Week. Hello! We’re Michael Petillo (he/they) with CES Partnership, LLC, and Rory Neuner (she/her) with the Barr Foundation. In today’s Pride Week post, we’re excited to explore what an anti-oppression evaluation practice means, and how it can empower LGBTQ2S people (among others, too!).  Anti-Oppression & LGBTQ2S   Oppression is …

LGBT TIG Week: A Deeper Love: LGBTQ2S-Centered Anti-Oppressive, Equitable Evaluation in Practice by Michael Petillo & Rory Neuner Read More »

We are Dr. Gregory Phillips II (he/him), Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and Chair of the LGBT TIG, and Ms. Eva Sarr (she/her), Founding Director of the Centre for Multicultural Policy and Program Evaluation and Founding Chair of the Australian Evaluation Society’s Multicultural Special Interest Group.  I (Gregory) have had the privilege to deliver many …

LGBT Issues TIG Week: Cultural Adaptation of LGBTQ Evaluation Trainings by Gregory Phillips II and Eva Sarr Read More »

Hello! My name is Esrea Perez–Bill (She/her/They/them) with the EDIT Program at Northwestern University. I am an emerging LGBTQ+ evaluator who works alongside other emerging LGBTQ+ evaluators who were interviewed for this piece. Who is the Expert? Expertise has often been contextualized by power. It’s imperative to critique the traditional idea of expertise, and those …

LGBT Issues TIG Week: Perspectives from Emerging LGBTQ+ Evaluators: On Advocacy, Love, and Making a Difference by Esrea Perez-Bill Read More »