Minority Serving Institution Fellowship Program

Because the purpose of the AEA’s Minority Serving Institution (MSI)  fellowship is to “increase the participation of evaluators and academics from underrepresented groups in the profession of evaluation and in the American Evaluation Association,” as ’23-’24 MSI Fellows, we selected the world of CREE under the leadership of Prof. Arthur E. Hernández as a thematic …

MSI Fellowship Week: The Journey Continues, by the ’23-’24 AEA MSI Fellows Read More »

Hello! My name is Rachel Berkowitz, and I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Recreation at San José State University. My work focuses on understanding and addressing the ways in which structures, systems, and places create and perpetuate health inequities through applied research and community-based work. I am a proud …

MSI Fellowship Week: How Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation Supports Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Evaluation by Rachel Berkowitz Read More »

Mabuhay! My name is Reynold Galope, and I am an Associate Professor in the College of Community Studies and Public Affairs at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.   In graduate school, I trained as a quantitative researcher. Thinking back to the early 2010s, perhaps I was influenced by the so-called Credibility Revolution in the …

MSI Fellowship Week: Nice Data, Now Show Me the Human Story Behind These Numbers! by Reynold Galope Read More »

My name is Yiwei Zhang. I am an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO), Grace Abbott School of Social Work, and the coordinator of the Support and Training for the Evaluation of Programs at UNO.  Lessons Learned  Over the past year, my participation in the AEA Minority Serving Institute (MSI) Fellowship has …

MSI Fellowship Week: Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation in Social Work: Implications for the Classroom by Yiwei Zhang Read More »

Hi! I’m Elizabeth Bishop. I teach modern Arab history at Texas State University and am a member of the Minority Serving Institution fellowship cohort at the AEA.  Rad Resources As I write, the University of Florida terminated all positions associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion in compliance with new state regulations, a year after Florida …

MSI Fellowship Week: Is CREE the Same as DEI Under Erasure? by Elizabeth Bishop Read More »

Hello! My name is Kunga Denzongpa, and I work as an evaluator for the non profit organization, Community-campus partnerships for health (CCPH) that liaises between communities and academic/institutional researchers to engage in responsive community engaged research. My professional background is in public health- community health education, and I was academically trained to do community-engaged research; …

MSI Fellowship Week: Application of CREE in Grant Writing by Kunga Denzongpa Read More »

Hello! We are the ‘23-’24 AEA Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Fellows, under the leadership of  Prof. Arthur E. Hernández. The purpose of the MSI fellowship is to “increase the participation of evaluators and academics from underrepresented groups in the profession of evaluation and in the American Evaluation Association” with a thematic focus of learning about …

MSI Fellowship Week: Introducing the ‘23-’24 AEA MSI Fellows Read More »

The 2021-2022 AEA MSI Fellows held a session during the 2022 AEA annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana to discuss the reasons for participating in the Fellowship, what they learned throughout the Fellowship, and impact of the Fellowship on their approaches to evaluation, and opportunities to integrate new frameworks and tools in their teaching, mentoring, …

MSI Fellowship Week: AEA MSI Fellow Session held at the 2022 Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana by Negin Fouladi, Dorothy Brandon, Rick Sperling, Leandro Echt Read More »

My name is Art Hernandez. I’m an evaluator and college professor and have been a member of AEA since 2006.   Lessons Learned Evaluation decision making (judgment) is as susceptible to inconsistency and inaccuracy as any other type of decision. Some acknowledged sources of inaccuracy include cognitive bias, known and unknown interdependence of information, training …

MSI Fellowship Week: The Expertise of Experience – The (Re)Consideration of Evaluator Qualifications in the Selection of Evaluators by Art Hernandez Read More »

Hi, I’m Leandro Echt, a consultant, evaluator, and researcher in international development. The following reflections build on my experience working in international development, bridging the fields evaluation, evidence informed decision making, equity and social justice, and facilitation. When conducting evaluations, we usually deal with complex problems that require a systemic approach that recognizes their multiple …

MSI Fellowship Week: Expanding the Knowledge that Counts in Evaluation Efforts by Leandro Echt Read More »