Hi, welcome to the Community Psychology TIG week! I’m Ijeoma Ezeofor and I’m an Evaluation and Learning Consultant at TCC Group and the Program Chair for the Community Psychology TIG. Community psychology has been described as a well-kept secret as many people are unfamiliar with it. In brief, community psychologists are committed to emphasizing prevention …
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Hi. I’m Patricia Moore Shaffer, Research & Analysis Deputy Director of the National Endowment for the Arts and served as the 2020 President of the Washington Evaluators. In my role as the agency’s internal evaluator, I began working with the Arts Endowment’s Our Town grant program team in 2016. The Our Town program supports creative placemaking …
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Hello! We are Drs. Yvette Clinton and Sharika Bhattacharya from ICF and we partner with Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) to evaluate their arts-integrated professional development programs implemented in Louisiana schools. These programs seek to increase teachers’ knowledge and capacity for arts-integrated instruction to positively impact student outcomes. As part of our formative and summative …
Hi! I’m Don Glass a learning designer and developmental evaluator. I’ve had the privilege of being on the Kennedy Center‘s internal Research and Evaluation team for several years. Of special interest to me has been working with our collective impact initiative to develop shared measurement for equitable access to arts learning opportunities. It has become …
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Hi! We are Susan Foutz, director of research and evaluation at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, and Bethany Thomas, vice president of programs and education engagement at the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites. Our museums are two of the twelve Indiana cultural institutions participating in the Access Pass program. Access Pass provides low-cost admission …
Hello! I am Patti Saraniero, an independent evaluator based in San Diego, California, specializing in evaluation in the arts and culture sector. Like a lot of folks, I have spent time in the last year cleaning out drawers and closets. One of my cleaning bursts led me to revisit video data from an evaluation project …
We are Patricia Montaño, Katie Boyd, Christine Okochi, Megan Littrell, and Anne Gold from the We are Water project based at CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder. We used evaluation to put community perspectives at the center of designing informal STEAM educational experiences about water in the Four Corners Region where Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New …
Hello! I’m Jeremy Foutz, principal at STEAM Workgroup and chair of the Arts, Culture, and Museums TIG which addresses evaluation in informal learning environments. For those unfamiliar with the phrase, the informal learning sector includes a large group of organizations, such as libraries, zoos, museums, historic sites, science centers, and arts centers. I’m writing this …
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I’m Tamara Hamai, PhD, President of Hamai Consulting and President-Elect of the National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence. I’ve dedicated my career to rebuilding our global systems to encourage children’s holistic growth and well-being, from prenatal through completion of higher education. Lessons Learned: In the chapter Adverse Childhood Experiences: Past, Present, and Future, that I …
My name is Denise Long, MS, BHS, OT, Doctor of Education Candidate in organizational leadership/development and adjunct faculty at Southern Illinois University. Over the last 6 years, I’ve studied, written, and worked in the areas of trauma-informed care (TIC), resilience, evaluation, and anti-racism. My dissertation research focuses on executive leadership of institutional racial equity. As …
