Greetings from Oregon. My name is Clare Strawn and I am an independent consultant primarily interested in community building of all kinds. I have had the privilege of helping to launch and evaluate multiple Communities of Practice with adult educators, NSF STEM grantees, and international STEM innovators. Hoping to be a good citizen in the …
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Hello! My name is Angela Fitzgerald and I am a Senior Researcher with the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD: www.nccdglobal.org) – a nonprofit that works to promote just and humane social systems. I have been involved in and have witnessed evaluation work from a number of vantage points, and a challenge that seems …
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My name is Lisa R. Holliday, and I am an Evaluation Associate with The Evaluation Group in Columbia, SC. I was recently cleaning survey data and preparing it to be uploaded into a database. The survey had been offered multiple times, and I wanted to track the responses of participants who had completed the survey …
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Hi. We’re Sherry Campanelli, Program Compliance Manager and Laura Newhall, Clinical Training Coordinator, from the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Disability Evaluation Services. As an organization, we are committed to ongoing quality improvement efforts to enhance our services for people with disabilities. Earlier, we wrote about common techniques that help a quality improvement (QI) team …
Evaluation 2014 was my first experience attending AEA’s annual conference, and the event introduced me to many outstanding evaluation professionals and organizations on twitter. Today I want to give a shout out to a few individuals and organizations that were very active throughout the conference, and are truly must-follows when it comes to finding the …
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Hi there! I’m Karen Anderson and I’m the programming Co-chair for the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association. After wrapping up my experience as the AEA Diversity Coordinator Intern last year I wanted to stay active and connected to the AEA community. During my short time working on the programming team I’ve learned a few tricks of the …
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Hi, my name is Ayana Perkins, the programming Co-Chair of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association as well as Senior Research Analyst and Evaluator at Infinite Services and Solutions. Lesson Learned: When evaluating organizations for empowerment one of the characteristics to explore is whether the agency is set up to be an opportunity role structure. Organizations structured …
Hello, my name is Lindsey Stillman and I work at Cloudburst Consulting Group, a small business that provides technical assistance and support for a number of different Federal Agencies. My background is in Clinical-Community Psychology and so providing technical assistance around evaluation and planning is my ideal job! Currently I am working with several communities …
Hi, I’m Maureen Wilce, a founding member of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association, and I’m Sarah Gill, president elect of AaEA. We’re both “true believers” in the power of evaluation to guide organizational learning. We’ve seen how good evaluation questions can help uncover important information to improve programs. We’ve also seen the opposite: how bad evaluation …
Hi, my name is Travis Tatum and I currently work as an independent evaluator through my company Creative Research Solutions, LLC. As President of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association it is my pleasure to welcome you to our affiliate’s AEA365 week! This week, our members will be contributing AEA365 posts with advice, best practices, and new tools …
