My name is Ray Kennard Haynes and I am an Assistant Professor at Indiana University- Bloomington and I have a keen interest domestic racial Diversity in Higher Education (HE). Since the 1970s the United States (U.S.) has attempted to address Diversity by focusing primarily on race and gender through Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) legislation. This …
Hello! I’m Nicole Clark, a licensed social worker and independent evaluator for Nicole Clark Consulting. I specialize in working with organizations and agencies to design, implement, and evaluate programs and services specifically for women and young women of color. Young women of color (YWOC) face many issues, including racism, sexism, ageism, immigrant status, socioeconomic status, and …
Hi again, I’m Dominica McBride, Founder and CEO of Become: Center for Community Engagement and Social Change. A few weeks ago, I wrote a tip on the importance of cultural competence. I wrote on the perpetual sociopolitical dilemmas we face as a society. Today, I’m providing a way to contribute to alleviating these issues. Start …
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We are Claudia Maldonado and Alicia López from the CLEAR Center for Spanish-speaking Latin America, proud members of the CLEAR Initiative. Would you recognize an “enabling environment” if you “saw” it? The enabling environment concept is very popular among professionals in evaluation. But what does it mean? How you create and cultivate this kind of …
I am Boubacar Aw, Coordinator of the Regional Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) for Francophone Africa hosted at Centre Africain d’Etudes Superieures en Gestion (CESAG) in Senegal, Dakar. I am writing today to offer practical tips on how to develop teaching materials through a Training of Trainers (ToT) model. These tips are …
I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, a private consultant on health services research. A few years ago, I was part of an exploratory study of Latino caregivers in the Boston area caring for a family member suffering Alzheimer’s disease. Difficulties facing those families coping with the disease have promoted the rise of support groups for diverse population …
I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, a private consultant on health services research. In a recent study, my colleague Lee Staples (Boston University) and I explored Immigrant Workers Centers (IWCs), community-based organizations that have been developed in the United States to promote and protect workers’ rights through support, services, advocacy, and organizing initiatives. We examined how IWCs …
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Greetings! I’m Molly Hamm, the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator at The DREAM Project, an educational non-profit organization in the Dominican Republic. Working in a multilingual environment, I must continuously switch back and forth between languages as I complete my daily tasks. From elaborating evaluation plans and designing research instruments to facilitating focus groups and …
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Saludos! My name is Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, President of Robles-Schrader Consulting and lead organizer of the Consortium for Latino Access to Research Opportunities (CLARO), based in the Chicagoland area. CLARO is a collaboration of diverse community sectors involved in Latino-focused healthcare, evaluation, and research. CLARO is interested in promoting research literacy, evaluation and engagement aimed …
Greetings from Washington, D.C.! My name is Kwamé A. McIntosh, member of the American Evaluation Association’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) 2012-2013 cohort. Today, I am eager to share with you my experience that I had as an Assistant Education Evaluator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s (NOAA) Office of Education (OED). As a …
