Hi, I’m Joanna Prout! I do research and program evaluation, however I started my career as a therapist and psychologist. I spent years watching clients struggle to get effective and accessible treatment and support. Seeing these struggles showed me our need to get information to make services more accessible and effective, so I pursued a career in research.
I’m Amy Kracker Selzer, and I’m a Senior MEL Specialist working with USAID. I’ve worked in international development research for many years. Through that work, I’ve found that while some qualitative data collection participants embrace the opportunity to share their perspectives and tell their stories, for others, sharing the depth of information that makes for rich qualitative work doesn’t come as naturally. In these instances, I’ve found maps to be a particularly useful tool to help people organize their thoughts about a topic and generate conversation, especially when collecting data about community evolution and change.
My name is Esther Nolton, and I am the Immediate Past President for Washington Evaluators. Like many of us in the field, I identify as an “accidental evaluator”—a person who stumbled upon evaluation and stuck around. As I reflect on my journey to and through evaluation, I am amazed by how intentional and logical my path has actually been. I hope my story provides an example of the fascinating ways in which people become evaluators.
Hi! I’m Natalie Donahue. I work in the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ Monitoring Evaluation Learning and Innovation (MELI) Unit and am proud to be this year’s Washington Evaluators President.
Hello readers, my name is Katherine Braga and I have the honor of writing to you as the Communications Committee Chair of Washington Evaluators (WE) – a position I’ve held for the past two years and will continue with in 2022. In addition, I serve as a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Specialist within USAID’s Bureau …
Hello! My name is Natalie Donahue and I served as the Washington Evaluators (WE) Membership Chair from 2019-2021 and have now transitioned to the role of President-Elect. As I think about the work the WE Board conducted in 2021, I am especially proud of our membership numbers. We started the year with 370 members and …
Hello and welcome to Day 5 of How WE (Washington Evaluators) Met the Moment by Focusing on Equity and Access! We are Kantahyanee Murray (she/her) and Fanni Farago (she/her) and we served together on WE’s Community Engagement Committee in 2021. Kantahyanee is a Senior Associate Director in the Center for Culturally Responsive Engagement at MPHI …
Hello AEA365 friends! My name is Esther Nolton and I had the pleasure of serving as the 2021 Program Chair for Washington Evaluators (WE) and now have the honor of stepping up as the 2022 President. As I take a moment to reflect on our programs in 2021, I am appreciating how much our incredible …
Greetings! I’m Patricia Moore Shaffer, 2021 Past President of the Washington Evaluators (WE) and Founder and Principal of Shaffer Evaluation Group. In addition to leading an educational evaluation practice, I also work as part of the Gaston-Shaffer partnership, providing strategic planning services to school districts and higher education institutions. I’ve served on the WE Board …
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Hello everyone. My name is Emily Bango and I’m a monitoring, evaluation, research and learning specialist with Internews. I’ve served on the board of Washington Evaluators (WE) for several years. In the summer of 2020, like many individuals and organizations in the US and around the world, WE’s Board was compelled to speak up and …
