Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues

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 »

I’m Scar Winter Kelsey, a data analyst with the EDIT Program at Northwestern University. I invite my readers to investigate the double-edged sword of queer data collection and analysis and what it means for successful evaluation. Queer representation in our data systems is becoming more prominent – but what does this mean for queer liberation? …

LGBT Issues TIG Week: The Double-Edged Sword of Queer Data by Scar Winter Kelsey Read More »

Positionality is a relatively new term for me but, apparently, I have lots of it.  I’m Carlos Romero from Apex in Albuquerque.  Our evaluation portfolio focuses on equity work– education, health, food, and housing programs.  I’m Latino. Gay. And, growing up, my family was on the wrong side of many social determinants of health. So, …

LGBT Issues TIG Week: Positionality: Mission, Methods, Motivations by Carlos Romero Read More »

Hi all! My name is Michael Curtis (he/him), and I’m speaking (kind of) to you from the Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT) team at Northwestern University. During 2020’s LGBT TIG week, my colleagues at EDIT wrote a piece focused on how important it was for evaluators to engage with the concept of intersectionality actively …

LGBT TIG Week: Intersectionality in Practice by Michael G. Curtis Read More »

Hey everybody! This is Dylan Felt (she/her) – I’m a research and evaluation Project Manager and Assistant Director of the EDIT Program at Northwestern University. I’m here today to talk about sex, baby! More specifically, I want to talk about how sex is a social category which is weaponized against transgender people, and how you …

LGBT TIG Week: Sex-Critical Data for Evaluation by Dylan Felt 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 …

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

Hi everyone. I’m Ash Philliber (they/them), a Senior Research Associate at Philliber Research and Evaluation. Recently, I was lucky enough to work with Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands on the randomized control evaluation of IN·clued: Inclusive Health Care – Youth and Providers Empowered. This program is an educational intervention designed …

LGBT TIG Week: LGBTQ sex ed can work!: Lessons and tips from evaluating an LGBTQ sex ed program by Ash Philliber Read More »