Hi! I’m Valerie Marshall, an evaluator and doctoral student of evaluation at Western Michigan University. Today, I would like to present some findings from a study about values and valuing in evaluation to encourage you to reflect on how they show up in your practice. Values and valuing are central to what we “do” as …
Greetings! My name is Amy Jersild. I am an independent evaluation professional working internationally and a PhD candidate in Western Michigan University’s Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation program. I am excited to share the purposeful sampling approach I adopted for a 3-paper study on the professionalization of evaluation practice. Such a sampling strategy may be of …
Hello, AEA365 readers! My name is Christine Liboon and I’m a doctoral candidate in the Social Research Methodology program at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. I am currently the Program Co-Chair for the Graduate Student and New Evaluators TIG (GSNE) as well as Member-at-Large for the Research on Evaluation TIG (RoE). I’m …
Aloha mai kakou! We are alumnae of the Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity Program who live and work in Hawai?i. Jackie Ng-Osorio (2nd cohort) is a Native Hawaiian who founded Ng-Osorio Consulting (NOC) and Brooke Keliikoa (3rd cohort) is co-lead of the Healthy Hawai‘i Evaluation Team at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. We share some reflections about our efforts to engage in culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE) within spaces involving diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Hi. My name is Tanisha Tate Woodson, Principal Evaluator and Strategist at Woodson Insights, LLC, and the Director of Research Equity at DHM Research. I am a culturally responsive researcher who specializes in using community-driven data to impact change and transform systems. My praxis and approach to evaluation are rooted in the belief that those …
Hello! I am Nitya Venkateswaran, from RTI International’s Transformative Research Unit for Equity (TRUE) where I direct evaluations of initiatives aimed to transform education systems using culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE) methods. I also lead TRUE’s Equity Capacity Building Hub, dedicated to enhancing the capacity of researchers to use CREE evaluation and research methods …
Chokma! Saholchifoat Chelsey Branham, Chickasha saya mentali okla humma. Greetings! I’m Chelsey Branham, a Chickasaw from Oklahoma. I own One Whole Village Consulting LLC., a firm specializing in increasing structural equity in institutions through evaluation, strategy, and development. As an associate professor in the Smith College School for Social Work, I teach policy and evaluation …
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Hi! My name is Jaymie Lorthridge and I use a culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE) approach to assess human service programs. The “C” in CREE requires attention to culture during all phases of the evaluation and when combined with the “E”, requires examination of cultural experiences by assessing outcomes related to equality, equity, and ideally …
Hello! I’m Chandria Jones, Principal Research Scientist in Public Health and Affiliate Staff at the Center on Equity Research at NORC at the University of Chicago. I’m also one of the editors of the book Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation: Visions and Voices of Emerging Scholars. In the realm of public health and social sciences, …
Hi, we are Tamarah Moss, Kimberly Harris, Rachel Powell, Jochebed Gayles, and Jennifer Garcia, and we welcome you to this week’s blog series. Originally coming together in the Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) Program, we hail from varying backgrounds in applied economics, business, education, human development, public health, and social work. Our evaluation …
