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Promoting Equity Through Participatory Evaluation Approaches Week: Centering Equity as a Process and an Outcome by Jack Tebes

I’m Jack Tebes, a professor at Yale School of Medicine and a faculty at YaleEVAL, an evaluation group of The Consultation Center at Yale, where I am Executive Director. This week my YaleEVAL colleagues and I have continued a dialogue on how participatory evaluation approaches can be used to promote equity. In this week-long blog …

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Promoting Equity Through Participatory Evaluation Approaches Week: Making Evaluation Challenges Explicit to Promote Equity by Michael Awad and Derrick Gordon

Hello. We are Michael Awad, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale School of Medicine and YaleEVAL Consultant; and Derrick Gordon, Associate Professor, Yale School of Medicine and Director, Research, Policy, and Program on Male Development at The Consultation Center at Yale and YaleEVAL faculty. As evaluators from underrepresented groups, we know first-hand about the unique challenges of working …

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Promoting Equity Through Participatory Evaluation Approaches Week: Promoting Equity for Underserved Populations by Amy Griffin

I’m Amy Griffin, Director of Health Evaluation Initiatives at The Consultation Center at Yale and a member of YaleEVAL. Recently I had the privilege to work with a state agency and a statewide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) coalition to develop a statewide LGBTQ needs assessment. Below are some Hot Tips to promote …

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Promoting Equity Through Participatory Evaluation Approaches Week: Promoting Equity Through Evaluation Capacity Building by Cindy Crusto

Hi, I’m Cindy Crusto, Professor, Yale School of Medicine and a faculty at YaleEVAL, an evaluation group at The Consultation Center at Yale, where I am Director, Program Evaluation and Child Trauma Research. I am pleased to contribute to our team’s week-long series on how participatory evaluation approaches can be used to promote equity. Today, …

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Promoting Equity Through Participatory Evaluation Approaches Week: Equity Through Community-Based Participatory Evaluation by Joy Kaufman

I am Joy Kaufman, Professor, Yale School of Medicine, a faculty at YaleEVAL, an evaluation group of The Consultation Center at Yale, where I am Deputy Director. Over the past 20 years I have partnered with recipients of care in evaluating the services they receive with the goal of reducing the power imbalances that can …

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Promoting Equity Through Participatory Evaluation Approaches Week: Promoting Equity through Participatory Evaluation Approaches by Jack Tebes

Hello, I’m Jack Tebes, Professor at the Yale School of Medicine and a faculty at YaleEVAL, an evaluation group of The Consultation Center at Yale, where I am Executive Director. Equity and social justice are central to our mission at the Center, so this week my YaleEVAL colleagues and I are continuing the dialogue on …

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Celebrating 4000 articles on AEA365! By Sheila B. Robinson

Hello everyone! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. A few weeks back I was excited that we were approaching 4000 articles on AEA365. Well, we reached that milestone in the first week of March 2021. I’ve always wanted to get a sense of how many people have contributed to this blog, …

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EPE TIG Week: Principles-Focused Evaluation for Agricultural Transformation by Greta Landis

Hey everyone! I’m Greta Landis, an Evaluation Specialist at the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Extension, and a Co-Chair of the Environmental Program Evaluation TIG. Environmental evaluation faces some complex and urgent challenges as we work to assess initiatives in environmental education, conservation, restoration, and cultivation. Reconciling short project timelines …

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EPE TIG Week: Evaluation for the Environment: Transdisciplinary Teams and the Next Generation by Kristi Lekies

Hi!  I’m Kristi Lekies, Associate Professor in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University.  Although my main area of work relates to youth and their interactions with community and natural environments, I’m also known as ‘the evaluator’ for my background in teaching evaluation, developing evaluation measures for colleagues, and serving …

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EPE TIG Week: Getting Started as an Environmental Advocate by Dawn Valentine

Hi, my name is Dawn Valentine, and I am the founder of the Variable Scoop, based in Washington DC. Our work is centered on building capacity to create better programs that end human suffering and support social change. As a person who loves the outdoors, I have always been aware of environmental initiatives; I just …

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