We are Nelda Reyes, of AB Cultural Drivers, and Kim Leonard, Leonard Research & Evaluation (pictured here with Ingrid, one of the Alliance business coaches, during a site visit to her office in early 2024). We have been working in partnership on an evaluation of the Oregon Child Care Alliance, and appreciate this opportunity to …
We are Oregon State University’s STEM Research Center (SRC), a team of dedicated professionals of various disciplinary backgrounds who conduct applied research and evaluation on STEM learning and education, science communication, and STEM engagement (figure 1). Working at the intersection of research, practice, and policy, we focus on equity and social justice and strive to …
I’m Steve Patty with Dialogues In Action. Over the past decade, my team has worked with over 500 organizations, mostly nonprofits, to build their capacity to do credible self-studies of their impact. Helping people do a self-study can be brilliant. It can also be fraught with peril. These are a few lessons learned we’ve learned …
Greetings! We’re Jean-Marie Callan and Becky Seel, members of the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) Research & Learning team who enjoy exploring opportunities to learn among and alongside the projects we fund. In Oregon, Chinook salmon migrate many miles from the Pacific Ocean back to their natal waters in the Columbia River Basin, aided by inherited …
Hi there. I’m Corey Newhouse, Founder and Principal of Public Profit. I had the honor of curating two weeks’ worth of AEA365 blogs from Oregon-based evaluators as part of the lead up to this year’s AEA conference. This week’s posts feature a variety of case studies of Oregon evaluators in action. Our authors share stories …
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Because the purpose of the AEA’s Minority Serving Institution (MSI) fellowship is to “increase the participation of evaluators and academics from underrepresented groups in the profession of evaluation and in the American Evaluation Association,” as ’23-’24 MSI Fellows, we selected the world of CREE under the leadership of Prof. Arthur E. Hernández as a thematic …
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Hello! My name is Rachel Berkowitz, and I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Recreation at San José State University. My work focuses on understanding and addressing the ways in which structures, systems, and places create and perpetuate health inequities through applied research and community-based work. I am a proud …
Mabuhay! My name is Reynold Galope, and I am an Associate Professor in the College of Community Studies and Public Affairs at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In graduate school, I trained as a quantitative researcher. Thinking back to the early 2010s, perhaps I was influenced by the so-called Credibility Revolution in the …
My name is Yiwei Zhang. I am an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO), Grace Abbott School of Social Work, and the coordinator of the Support and Training for the Evaluation of Programs at UNO. Lessons Learned Over the past year, my participation in the AEA Minority Serving Institute (MSI) Fellowship has …
Hi! I’m Elizabeth Bishop. I teach modern Arab history at Texas State University and am a member of the Minority Serving Institution fellowship cohort at the AEA. Rad Resources As I write, the University of Florida terminated all positions associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion in compliance with new state regulations, a year after Florida …
MSI Fellowship Week: Is CREE the Same as DEI Under Erasure? by Elizabeth Bishop Read More »
