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Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation

LA RED Week: Josie Serrata, Martha Hernandez and Grisel M. Robles-Schrader on Building the Evaluation Capacity of Latina/o Community Based Organizations as Transformation

?Saludos! We are evaluators and researchers who work alongside Latina/o communities, Josie Serrata and Martha Hernandez work at the National Latin@ Network, a project of Casa de Esperanza, a nationally recognized culturally-specific community based organization (CBO). Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, is President of Robles-Schrader Consulting. As supporting members of the newly formed LA RED network, this …

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LA RED Week: Maria Jimenez and Andrea Guajardo on Practical application of Critical Race Theory in Latina/o Responsive Evaluation

We are Dr. Maria Jimenez, Independent Evaluation Consultant in Los Angeles, CA, and Andrea Guajardo, MPH, Director of Community Health at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System in San Antonio, TX. As supporting members of the newly formed LA RED network, this post focused on the consideration of critical race theory as a practical application in …

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LA RED Week: Lisa Aponte-Soto and Wanda Casillas on Pathways for Building a Cadre of Latina/o Evaluators

?Saludos! We are Lisa Aponte-Soto and Wanda Casillas, AEA GEDI alumni from LA RED network. Aponte-Soto serves as National Program Deputy Director of RWJF New Connections at the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning. Casillas is a postdoctoral scholar with the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan. The growing Latino presence in …

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LA RED Week: Art Hernandez on Latino Cultural Competence

My name is Art Hernandez and I am a Professor and Dean at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. I teach and practice research and evaluation, have participated in the AEA Minority Serving Institution initiative also serving as Director. As a supporting member of the newly formed LA RED network, this post focuses on Latino Cultural …

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LA RED Week: Lisa Aponte-Soto and Saúl I. Maldonado on Charting the Course for Latina/o Leadership in Evaluation

¡Salud! and Seasons Greetings! We are Lisa Aponte-Soto and Saúl I. Maldonado, AEA GEDI alumni and co-chairs of LA RED, the Latina/o Responsive Evaluation Discourse Network. Aponte-Soto serves as National Program Deputy Director of RWJF New Connections at the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning. Maldonado is Adjunct Faculty at Santa Clara University’s School of Education …

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Roxann Lamar on Culturally Responsive Terminology

My name is Roxann Lamar and I work in research and evaluation at the Center for Human Development, University of Alaska Anchorage. Our local AEA chapter, the Alaska Evaluation Network (AKEN) hosted a discussion on cultural competence, particularly relevant toNative cultures. About 19% of Alaskans have all or partial Native heritage. The AEA’s statement on …

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LAWG Week: Mariana Enríquez on Reaching Minority Communities

Hello, my name is Mariana Enríquez and I am a Program Evaluation Consultant based in Denver, Colorado. My work focuses on the evaluation of education and public health programs across Colorado. Immigration has been in recent news because of the large number of unaccompanied children arriving in the country from Central America. Colorado, and especially …

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MIE TIG Week: Andrea Guajardo on Culturally Responsive Evaluation in a Health Setting

I am Andrea Guajardo, Director of Community Health for CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System and a doctoral student at the University of the Incarnate Word seeking a PhD focused on Organizational Leadership and Program Evaluation.  My role at the hospital provides numerous opportunities for evaluation of community-based programs as well as community collaborations, but the …

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MIE TIG Week: Maurice Samuels on Building an Evaluator’s Capacity to Conduct Culturally Competent Evaluations

Greetings my name is Maurice Samuels and I’m a Lead Evaluation and Research Associate at Outlier Research and Evaluation, CEMSE|University of Chicago. Our group recently hosted an American Evaluation Association Graduate Education Diversity Intern (GEDI). This was a wonderful opportunity for me and my colleagues to influence the development of a new member to the …

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MIE TIG Week: Stafford Hood and Rodney Hopson on Continuing the Journey on Culture and Cultural Context in Evaluation

Greetings AEA and evaluation family, we’re Stafford Hood, professor, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign and Director, Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) and Rodney Hopson, professor, George Mason University and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Education Policy and Evaluation. We are members of the AEA Multi-Ethnic Issue TIG, having been long time members and …

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