Hi! My name is Nicole Porter, and I am a PhD student in Evaluation and Applied Research Methods at Claremont Graduate University. In addition to being a student at CGU, I also served as the Jobs Coordinator for the Claremont Evaluation Center for two years. As the Jobs Coordinator I would often work with students …
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Hello! I am Lara Hilton MPH, and I am a research analyst at RAND Corporation (Santa Monica, CA), Samueli Institute (Alexandria, VA), and a doctoral student at Claremont Graduate University (Claremont, CA). I have worked in evaluation contexts such as hospitals, clinics, military settings, and international development with a myriad of stakeholders. I have a …
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My name is John LaVelle, I am the Director of Operations and External Affairs for the School of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences and the School of Politics & Economics at Claremont Graduate University. I’m also a PhD candidate specializing in Evaluation and Applied Research Methods, and a past curator of the AEA365 blog. Today I’m …
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I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director Emeritus and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Rad Resource – American Evaluation Association’s LinkedIn Group: AEA’s LinkedIn group is open to members and nonmembers alike from around the world and currently welcomes over 11,000 colleagues to the community exchange. Lessons Learned – What is LinkedIn: At …
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I’m Clara Hagens. I work for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) as the Regional Technical Advisor for Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) in Asia. I’d like to share with you a resource pack we have developed to support teams to develop and implement monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems throughout different phases of an emergency response. …
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My name is Susan Kistler and I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director Emeritus and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Last week, I saw the new Star Trek movie (yes, my inner geek shines through once again). Part of its premise was that a team had been asleep for years, only to awake and wreak …
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My name is Tanya Ostrogorsky, Assistant Vice Provost for Assessment and Evaluation at Oregon Health & Science University, and I’ve been involved with Oregon Program Evaluators Network since 2002. I ‘grew up’ studying research methods and data analysis and looking back I was a functioning as an evaluator before I knew what that meant. It …
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My name is Kelly Smith, and I’m an evaluator, policy analyst and economist at ECONorthwest, a consulting firm in Portland, Oregon. I’ve been a devoted member of OPEN (Oregon Program Evaluators Network), an AEA affiliate, since I was introduced to it in graduate school in 2007. OPEN works hard to provide our members with a …
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My name is Adrienne Zell and I work as an internal evaluator for the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, an organization that provides services to biomedical researchers at Oregon Health and Science University. I also volunteer as the executive director of a small nonprofit, Impactivism, which provides evaluation advice to community organizations. I have …
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Hi. We are Erin Stack and Lindsey Patterson. Erin is a Community Psychology doctoral student at Portland State University (PSU) and the current student liaison for the Oregon Program Evaluation Network (OPEN). Lindsey is a former OPEN student liaison and a soon-to-be graduate of the PSU Community Psychology program. Lindsey currently works at the Center …
