Hi, I’m Debbie Gowensmith, vice-president of Groundswell Services and PhD candidate specializing in evaluation at the University of Denver. With my colleague and partner, Dr. Neil Gowensmith, I have been using Photovoice with evaluations of programs for returning citizens, or people being released from prison. People in prisons are more likely than the general public …
My name is Carolyn F. Fisher, Ph.D. and I’m a Research and Evaluation Scientist at the Institute for Community Health in Malden, MA. I’m a qualitative specialist and a long-time IRB member. When I first began thinking about trauma-informed data collection a couple of years ago, I noticed that there are some contradictions between the …
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My name is Aaron Kates, and I am a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Evaluation (IDPE) program at Western Michigan University. I am a psychotherapist, researcher, and independent evaluator. “Has anyone ever had sex with you without your permission?” The Guatemalan boy across the table from me was silent. “Has anyone ever asked …
My name is Lisa Raphael, and I am an independent consultant. Until recently, much of my work has not explicitly considered trauma in the evaluation process. This is partly due to the fact that most education funding is tied to academic achievement and ignores other more holistic aspects of healthy child development.My own narrative has …
I am Martha Brown, Ph.D. president of RJAE Consulting, and curator of Trauma-Informed (TI) Evaluation Week. Being trauma-informed means you 1) realize the impact of trauma, 2) recognize the signs and symptoms of trauma, 3) respond by integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practices, and 4) resist re-traumatization. While information about trauma and …
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Hello Loyal aea365 readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with one question for you: What is it that YOU would like to read about on this blog? I first posted this article in 2015 (and every year since) and we receive excellent responses from readers each time it is published. I typically …
Hello. My name is Jindra Cekan, and I am the Founder and Catalyst of Valuing Voices at Cekan Consulting LLC. Our research, evaluation and advocacy network have been working on post-project (ex-post) evaluations since 2013. I have loved giraffes for decades and fund conservation efforts (see pix). Our planet is in trouble as are millions of …
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Greetings, I am Holta Trandafili, a researcher and evaluator captivated by sustainability theories and the sustainment of results. I believe that a thoughtful, systematic inquiry of what happens after an intervention ends adds value to what we know about sustainability. Since 2015 I have co-led ten post-program evaluations (also known as ex-posts) in Uganda, Kenya, …
Peace is with you. My name is Peter Kimeu Ngui, the Founder and CEO of Decent Living Institute of Organic Farming with extensive experience on reflective peace and partnership building in Africa. Is there anything like a ‘just world’? Can peace be ‘sustainable’? These two closely related questions must be in mind of evaluators of peace …
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I am Wendi Bevins, and when my boss told me in 2017 that we were going to conduct an ex-post evaluation, I was thrilled. At the time I was the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager at Lutheran World Relief[1] (LWR). I was thrilled to go back to a closed project and evaluate it against our original …
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