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LAWG Week: Kate Hurd and Meenoo Mishra on Atlanta Neighborhoods and Food

Hello! We are Kate Hurd and Meenoo Mishra, local Atlanta public health consultants and lovers of good food! We’re excited to welcome you to Atlanta for the American Evaluation Association conference in October. Our city offers many exciting experiences and culinary delights. In this blog, we highlight our favorite neighborhoods in Atlanta and the great …

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LAWG Week: Omoshalewa Bamkole and Natalie Taylor on Getting to Know Atlanta

Hi, we are Omoshalewa Bamkole and Natalie Taylor, student members of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association and the Local Affiliate Working Group. This post is designed to share our perspective on Atlanta, some downtown eats, and experiences. Since you’ll be an Atlantan for the duration of the conference, it’s important for you to understand some idiosyncrasies …

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LAWG Week: Elizabeth Runkle and Dayna S. Alexander on the Atlanta Nonprofit Scene

Welcome to Atlanta! We are Elizabeth Runkle, a Senior Consultant and Regional Manager with the Georgia Center for Nonprofits and Dayna S. Alexander, Evaluation Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Division of Reproductive Health (DRH). Atlanta has a wide variety of nonprofits from large international relief organizations to small …

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LAWG Week: Dayna S. Alexander on CDC in Atlanta

Greetings! My name is Dayna S. Alexander, and I’m in the Evaluation Fellowship Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Division of Reproductive Health (DRH). The Evaluation Fellowship Program, coordinated via the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), is in its 6th year, hosts 20 Fellows per year …

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LAWG Week: Linda Vo-Green, Krista Collins and Lindsey Barranco on Starting your Atlanta Itinerary

Hello again! We are Linda Vo-Green, Krista Collins and Lindsey Barranco of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA), and your chairs for the Local Arrangements Working Group for Evaluation 2016 in Atlanta. This week we want to help you prepare for your trip and get excited about all the things Atlanta has to offer! Hot Tip: …

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Jayne Corso on the Best Ways to Use Twitter at a Conference

Hi my name is Jayne Corso and I am the Community Manager for AEA. Twitter is a great tool for staying social at conferences. It provides real-time opportunities for sharing content and insights. Here are a few tips to help you be social during your upcoming conferences! You can even use these at Evaluation 2016. …

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GEDI Week: Thana-Ashley Charles and Jamie Vickery on Learning and Applying Cultural Competence Within an Evaluation Team

Throughout the course of our GEDI experience, we have been immersed in cultural competence and culturally responsive evaluation. We learned the fundamentals of cultural competence in seminars at Claremont Graduate University and explored the prevalence of culturally responsive evaluation topics at AEA’s annual meeting. The unique opportunity of being able to observe the work of …

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GEDI Week: Dani Rae Gorman and Angela Nancy Mendoza on Creating Value and Utility: Engaging Stakeholders throughout the Evaluation Process

Hello, we are Dani Rae Gorman and Angela Nancy Mendoza, former scholars of the AEA Graduate Diversity Education Internship (GEDI) program 2015-2016 cohort. We’d like to share some of our lessons learned throughout the program in engaging stakeholders from the inception and throughout the process of evaluation. Lessons Learned: Consistent Engagement Evaluation phases change over …

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GEDI Week: Dominic Combs and Marques Hogan on a Quest to Become Culturally Responsive Evaluators

We are Dominic Combs and Marques Hogan, scholars of the GEDI program’s 13th cohort. Through professional development, conferences, mentoring and internships in organizations that value culturally responsive evaluation, the GEDI program makes space for scholars to learn and practice. Further, the yearlong experience encourages scholars to challenge their capacities and pursue careers that we previously …

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GEDI Week: Monique Liston, Leah Peoples and Ibukun Owoputi on Evaluating Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Organizations

We are alumna of the AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program’s 13th cohort. Today’s hot tips are reflections on the importance of increasing an organization’s capacity to conduct equitable evaluations across all the stages of an evaluation. Here, we will share three tips that we learned while working at our GEDI sites. Hot Tip …

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