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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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? …
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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, …
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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 …
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