We are Michael Quinn Patton, founder and original author of Utilization-Focused Evaluation, and Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton, Director of Organizational Development and Evaluation for our Utilization-Focused Evaluation consulting practice. We are father-daughter and evaluation partners. A major challenge in designing and carrying out evaluations in these turbulent times is dealing with complexity. In working with intended …

New Directions for Utilization-Focused Evaluation by Michael Quinn Patton and Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton Read More »

Happy conference week! I’m Elizabeth DiLuzio, lead curator of AEA365. Couldn’t make it to the AEA conference this year but would still like to connect with and learn from the community? The Twitterverse has got you. While nothing is comparable to attending yourself, there’s a mighty cadre of live Tweeters who share their favorite quotes, …

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Happy conference week! I’m Elizabeth DiLuzio, lead curator for AEA365. Today, let’s talk about ways to get the most out of a conference. Go broad – Identify a few topics you would like to learn more about. These could be methods you’ve heard evaluators mention that piqued your curiosity, topics you’ve read about in AEA365 …

Tips for Navigating a Virtual Conference by Elizabeth DiLuzio Read More »

Hi from your AEA365 curators! We are Lead Curator, Elizabeth (Liz) DiLuzio, and Volunteer Curator, Elizabeth Grim. If you’re seeing this blog in your inbox, thank you for being a subscriber of AEA365! We are so glad you are part of this learning community. Keeping with the theme of #Eval21, we want to take a …

All about AEA365 by Elizabeth Grim & Liz DiLuzio Read More »

Hi all! Elizabeth Grim here. AEA365 volunteer curator, this week – frequent AEA365 blogger, and Founder and Principal Consultant of Elizabeth Grim Consulting, LLC. It’s AEA conference week! Will you be attending the conference virtually from your living room, gathering with colleagues for an office watch party, or engaging with the chatter on social media? …

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Hello! We are an interdependent coalition of illegitimate, invalid, alien, non-conforming, under-represented folx committed to collective liberation (in no hierarchical order): Albertina Lopez, Aisha Rios, Sheri Scott, Vidhya Shanker, Libby Smith, and Carolyn Camman. We are six of eight organizers who have been collaboratively contributing our labor to challenge the perpetuation of whiteness in and …

Decolonizing Evaluation Week: Unearthing Evaluation’s Roots by Albertina Lopez, Aisha Rios, Sheri Scott, Vidhya Shanker, Libby Smith, and Carolyn Camman Read More »

Hello friends. I’m Jewlya Lynn, a systems change strategist and evaluator, and I’m Jen Heeg, a researcher and evaluator at the intersection of complexity and equity. We’re here today to continue a conversation we entered at the 2020 AEA conference, and continued in this blog. If you missed the previous parts, here’s the straightforward premise:  …

Decolonizing Evaluation Week: Changing the Future: The Transformative Potential of Decolonized Foresight Practices by Jewlya Lynn and Jen Heeg Read More »

Greetings from Sheri Scott and Coco Villaluz. Coco is Hidatsa, Assiniboine and Chamorro. CoCo considers herself a student and her main mission is to honor her ancestors’ teachings to continue a good way of life. Sheri (she/her/they) is an evaluation consultant, writing from the beautiful lands of the HoChunk near the confluence of the Mississippi and …

Decolonizing Evaluation Week: Who Tells the Story? Decolonizing Dissemination by Sheri Scott and Coco Villaluz Read More »

I am Susan Wolfe of Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC. I am a community psychologist. My evaluation portfolio includes evaluating initiatives to reduce health and educational inequities rooted in systemic racism. Reducing inequities and systemic racism requires decolonizing white-supremacy based practices, including evaluation practices. My work requires a deep dive into my own place of …

Decolonizing Evaluation Week: Decolonizing Evaluation: It Starts with Examining the Paradigm by Susan M. Wolfe Read More »

Hi, everyone! This is Rayna Brown (She/her) and Esrea Perez-Bill (She/her/They/them) from Northwestern University’s EDIT program. We are here to expand on our Think Tank at the EViE conference in May 2021: “Re-Imagining Evaluation through Decolonial Practices.” However, it is incredibly important to acknowledge that these conversations have been ongoing for years preceding this moment. …

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