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Hi! We’re Dr. Ann Price, founder and President of Community Evaluation Solutions, and Dr. Sheila B. Robinson, owner of Custom Professional Learning, LLC. Ann has spent 25+ years she has partnered with communities, coalitions, nonprofits, and foundations to design, implement, and evaluate programs across education, public health, youth development, and community coalitions, while Sheila brings more than 30 years’ experience designing and facilitating professional learning on a multitude of topics for educators, evaluators, and other professionals.

Hello! I’m Arthur Hernández, an evaluator and educator whose work focuses on evaluation, community engagement, and the forms of knowledge we authorize as credible.

We’re Evan Gattozzi, Senior Project Manager with Informing Change, and Meghan Hunt, Senior Consultant with Engage R+D. Our two evaluation and learning firms have been working alongside the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation* to sustain and strengthen equity-centered evaluation. At a time of increasing injustice and ongoing threats to equity and equity-centered work, we’re also seeing important efforts to sustain practices and strengthen relationships among equity-centered practitioners and funders, which we want to share today.

We are Diana Rohlman, Taylor Vogel, and Francesca Germano–toxicologists and evaluators at Oregon State University. Our lab conducts exposure science studies with community members to better understand what chemicals they are exposed to, and if those chemicals might be harmful. We are dedicated to ensuring that study participants have easy access to their data. The process of analyzing, preparing, and then giving people study results is called the report-back of research results, or RBRR.

Hi! My name is Rick Davies, and I am an evaluator with a long-standing interest in people’s stories — about the past, as collected through the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique, and about the future, as generated through ParEvo and other foresight methods. Over the past year I have built a free browser tool for analysing them, and what I want to share is the method rather than the software.

Hi! I’m Nishat Akhi, a doctoral student from Bangladesh studying at Boston College and an AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) scholar. During my internship with Intention 2 Impact (I2I), I expected to learn new methods and better understand how evaluators measure systems change. I did. But my most important learning came from watching how

Hi! My name is Shelita Hall-Augustus. This summer, I worked with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation through the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) to answer a question that affects all of us: can AI identify evaluation methods the way human evaluators do? I tested ChatGPT and Gemini against ten MacArthur Foundation

Hello, world! My name is Eunji Kong, and I am proud to be part of the Sisterhood of Healing Courage (GEDI 22). As a Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) scholar, I had the privilege of working with the Los Angeles Education Partnership (LAEP), where I supported equity-focused evaluation projects and learned what evaluation can look

Buenas! My name is M. Magdalena Jimenez Aguilar, but everyone calls me Magda (she/her/ella). I am a fifth-year PhD student and soon-to-be candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I’m a lifelong Californian and University of California student, having received my bachelor’s degree from UC Davis and my master’s degree at UCLA. I am

Olá! My name is Mariana Hernandes Grassi, a Latina doctoral student from Brazil at Loyola University Chicago and an alumna of the GEDI 22 cohort (also known as the Sisterhood of Healing Change). Having recently wrapped up my GEDI (Graduate Education Diversity Internship) fellowship last month, I’m reflecting on how my decade-plus background as a