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IPE TIG Week: Indigenous Evaluation and Learning Centers on the How by Dr. Gladys Rowe

1 Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / October 30, 2021

Tansi! Greetings! My name is Dr. Gladys Rowe. I am Muskego Inninew (Swampy Cree) from Fox Lake Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba. I also hold relations with ancestors from England, Ireland, Norway, and Ukraine. I am currently a guest on the lands of the Suquamish and Duwamish Nations in Washington. I have been working in …

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IPE TIG Week: Intentionally Reframing Logic to Hope by Dyani Bingham, Desiree Restad, Kelley Milligan, and Allyson Kelley

Leave a Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / October 29, 2021

We are Dyani Bingham, Desiree Restad, Kelley Milligan, and Allyson Kelley, AKA PLLC Public Health Consultants, Evaluators, and Scientists working with tribal communities across the U.S. We have experience helping clients visually reframe their logic models to show the impact of health programs in a way that is inspired by healing, culture, and community. Rad …

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IPE TIG Week: Journeying from Settler Colonialism Towards Indigenous Liberation Through Culturally Specific Assessment by David Sul

Leave a Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / December 6, 2021

Aloha! Aanii! Boozhoo! ¡Hola! Greetings from the land where the trees are red, and the condor soars high above them. Here is where the moon rises and sets several times a night and where the land meets the ocean, and the ocean meets the sky. The Coastal Miwok, the original inhabitants of this space, called …

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IPE TIG Week: Being a Good Guest in Different Cultural Spaces by Aneta Katarina Raiha Cram

Leave a Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / October 29, 2021

Kia ora koutou (greetings everyone), I am Aneta Katarina Raiha Cram, connected to the Ng?ti Kahungunu and Ng?ti Pahuwera iwi (tribes) on the east coast of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. I am a doctoral student at Victoria University of Wellington where the focus of my studies is to explore frameworks from different Indigenous …

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Building Capacity for Evaluation Dissertations, Theses, and Culminating Projects by Tamara Walser and Mike Trevisan

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / November 26, 2021

Greetings from Tamara Walser and Mike Trevisan. Tamara is a Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Mike is a Dean and Professor at Washington State University. Over our years as faculty, we have observed increased interest in graduate evaluation capstones, where students complete an evaluation as part of their capstone experience. Evaluation …

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Internal Eval TIG Week: Evaluation in the Era of the “Great Resignation” by Rachel Sier and Morgan Buras-Finlay

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / November 17, 2021

Hello! We are Rachel Sier and Morgan Buras-Finlay. In the Jobs Report released in August 2021, the US Department of Labor reported that over 4.3 million people quit their jobs or 2.9% of the American workforce, the highest number on record since December 2000. While much of this upheaval is occurring in customer service facing …

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Internal Eval TIG Week: Internal Evaluation as a Catalyst for Cross-Program Collaboration by Amber Kraft, Melissa Schwarz, and Lindsay Zeman

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / November 14, 2021

Hi everyone, we are Amber Kraft, Melissa Schwarz, and Lindsay Zeman. We are internal evaluators at Access Community Health Network (ACCESS) in Chicago, IL. In Fall 2020, we completed an evaluation project to help program managers at ACCESS learn how the pandemic had impacted their programs. This was the first time an evaluation activity had …

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Internal Eval TIG Week: Harnessing the Value of an Online Collaborative MEL Platform by Andressa Gutierrez

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / November 16, 2021

Hi! I am Andressa Gutierrez, a MEL Specialist at WorldFish, an international research institution that works on aquatic food systems. I am an international development professional with over 15 years of experience in country-, regional-, and global-level management, coordination, and monitoring development investments in agriculture and natural resources.  The CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food …

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Internal Eval TIG Week: Gaining Acceptance as an Internal Evaluator by Maddison Staszkiewicz

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / November 14, 2021

Hello! My name is Maddison Staszkiewicz, and I am the Chair of the Graduate Students and New Evaluators TIG. I have spent my evaluation career to date working as an internal evaluator and studying the dynamics through former graduate work. For many evaluators, such as Catherine Nameth who wrote this AEA365 post, evaluation is not …

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Internal Eval TIG Week: Offering Free Workshops to Build Internal Evaluation Capacity within Organizations by Danelle Marable

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / November 14, 2021

Hello!  I’m Danelle Marable, and I’m the Director of Evaluation and Data for the Beth Israel Lahey Health Community Benefits team.  We are a health system with 13 hospitals in Eastern Massachusetts.  We support internal programs and external organizations that address access to care and the social determinants of health. When I started my new …

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