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GEDI Week: Kenneth Pass on Cultural Responsiveness and Community Engagement in Health, Evaluation, and Philanthropy

Hello, my name is Kenneth Pass. I am a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University and a recent Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program alumnus. During my GEDI internship at Growth Capital Network in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I engaged in various health, evaluation, and philanthropic projects with state and local community …

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GEDI Week: Drs. Ashaki M. Jackson and Stewart Donaldson on Culture Matters: GEDI Week on AEA365

Greetings from Los Angeles! We are Drs. Ashaki M. Jackson and Stewart Donaldson – the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program leadership team. This week, we share with you reflections from our most recent alumni, fondly called District 13 in honor of our 13th cohort. During last year’s annual conference, GEDI scholars were charged with …

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Liz Zadnik on Highlights from the 2016 Rape Prevention & Education Leadership Training

Greetings friends!  Liz Zadnik here with a rundown from this year’s Rape Prevention and Education Leadership Training in Washington DC.  Each year, preventionists from state sexual assault coalitions and departments of health come together to celebrate prevention efforts, network with one another, and challenge each other to innovate.  It’s an inspiring space – I’m always …

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Aditi Patel on Technology for Evaluation in Fragile and Conflict Affected States: An Introduction for the Digital Immigrant Evaluator

Are you an experienced evaluator who thinks technology could help your work, but have no idea where to begin? I’m Aditi Patel, a recent graduate of the Fletcher School of Tufts University, where I worked with Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church to understand how seasoned evaluators–such as you, the AEA blog reader!–can think about where and how technology …

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Marissa Marzano on Making data stick with design

I’m Marissa Marzano, and I’m the Communications Specialist at the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault. I’ve sat through many a PowerPoint jam-packed with utterly fantastic information, only to leave a session and wonder, “What was that about again?” You’ve crunched the numbers, you’re geeking out over your results… now how do you ensure your …

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Dena Lomofsky on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning of Policy Influence for Think Tanks

Dena Lomofsky, managing member of Southern Hemisphere and Vanesa Weyrauch, co-founder of Politics & Ideas work together to deliver specialist online courses on MEL for think tanks, in the field of policy influence. There are many exciting ways of doing MEL for think tanks, which we would love to share with you. The complexity of …

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Scott Chaplowe on Rad Resources for M&E Training & Capacity Building

Hello AEA365ers! My name is Scott Chaplowe, and I have been working in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for over a decade, (currently with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC). My work involves not only doing M&E myself, but helping others to understand and support it. Whether with communities, project teams, …

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Labor Day Week: Michael Quinn Patton on Honorees, Honorers, and a Labor Day Cautionary Tale

This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). My name is Michael Quinn Patton of Utilization-Focused Evaluation and I have the honor of concluding this special series honoring living evaluation pioneers, a small, select sample chosen by those who took the initiative to identify …

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Labor Day Week: M. Justin Miller and Tiffany Smith on Honoring Bob Stake

This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). Hello! We are M. Justin Miller and Dr. Tiffany Smith from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. M. here – I am a graduate student in the Masters Program in Applied Psychology (MSAP), and I work for …

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