Vidhya Shanker here and I serve on the Local Arrangements Committee. Minnesota’s Scandinavian history is common knowledge, but our state is also home to the largest urban indigenous population in the country. Beyond a rich African American history, we also have the country’s largest Hmong and Somali populations and a growing Latin@ population. The Committee …
My name is Laura Pryor, and I am a recent alumna of The American Evaluation Association’s Graduate Education Diversity Initiative (GEDI) program. My experience in the GEDI program largely focused on culturally responsive evaluation. As a result, my current work considers and prioritizes several methods to apply culturally responsive practices. Most recently, I incorporated the …
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I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo a Director for Program Evaluation with the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Conducting evaluation entails the incorporation of multicultural features of individuals and/or organizations into the process of data collection and analysis. These multicultural features are socially constructed and are translated into layers …
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We are Tayo Fabusuyi and Tori Hill, Lead Strategist and Research Scientist respectively of Numeritics, a research and consulting firm based in Pittsburgh, PA. We conducted an evaluation of the Black Male Leadership Development Institute (BMLDI), a year-long program in Western Pennsylvania for high-school aged African American males. The BMLDI is designed to give participants …
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Hi, I’m Dominica McBride, President of The HELP Institute, Inc. and a member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. I also have my PhD in Counseling Psychology and have provided psychotherapy. This tip focuses on the affective and psychological side of cultural competence in everyday evaluation practice. Culturally …
I’m Sarah Gill, membership chair for the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA). Recently AaEA hosted a spring social. The event was inspired by the recent AEA 365 posts making predictions for the future of evaluation. Maureen Wilce, AaEA’s chair for professional development, and I thought the posts would inspire great conversation among our fellow evaluators – …
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I’m Dominica McBride, President of The HELP Institute, Inc. Recently, I wrote an article for New Directions for Evaluation on Sociocultural Theory (ST) and its applicability to evaluation. Joke: There were a few young fish swimming near an older, wise fish and the old, wise fish says, “My, isn’t the water wonderful today?” and the …
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I’m Kelly Robertson and I am a project manager at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University and a student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation (IDPE). My co-presenter at AEA’s 2011 conference was fellow IDPE student and teacher, Diane Rogers. The title of our presentation was, “Race or Racism? Value Implications and Practical Solutions.” …
I am Efrain Gutierrez and I work for FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm that helps foundations, nonprofits and corporations increase their social impact. Before working for FSG I worked for the US Consulate in Guadalajara Mexico where I experienced a lot interaction between Mexicans and Americans. My work at the consulate helped me discover and …
Hello, I’m Linda Cabral, a Senior Project Director from the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In an effort to more fully engage people from different cultural backgrounds and their communities in one of our recently-completed qualitative evaluation projects for our State’s Department of Mental Health, we employed …
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