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Growing Tolerance To The Incertitude Linked To My Practice As A Consultant By Sara Vaca

1 Comment / Uncategorized / August 15, 2020

Dear AEA365 readers, I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant and frequent Saturday contributor. Last week a friend-colleague told me that she was thinking about becoming independent and she asked me about my experience and how I deal with it. I’ve written before about it, but this week, while being on holiday-ish mode with my family by …

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LGBTQ Week: Do you need to ask about sex & gender on your survey? By Joseph Van Matre

11 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / August 12, 2020

Curator note: This article was originally published in 2017 but we thought it would make a great addition to this week. We often rerun articles as part of our “Best of AEA365 series.” Happy LGBTQ+ Evaluator Week! I’m Joseph Van Matre, an institutional research analyst at the University of California*. Surveys are an integral part …

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LGBT TIG Week: Identity as a Compass within 2SLGBTQ Evaluations: Finding Your Compass by Andrew Hartman, Brian Hoessler, Carolyn Camman & Vincent Tom

1 Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / August 9, 2020

Hello! We are Andrew Hartman, Brian Hoessler, Carolyn Camman and Vincent Tom – 2SLGBTQ evaluators from upper Turtle Island located throughout Western Canada. We’ve been exploring how our identities inform how we navigate our evaluation work as part of a submission for an upcoming journal issue on 2SLGBTQ evaluators and evaluation. Existing as queer has …

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LGBT TIG Week: Intersectionality in LGBTQ+ Evaluation by Jackie Xu, Erik Elías Glenn, Jason Roth

Leave a Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / August 11, 2020

Hi everyone! This is Jackie Xu (she/her), Erik Elías Glenn (he/him/él), and Jason Roth (choose your own adventure), coming to you from the Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT) team at Northwestern University. During this year’s LGBT TIG week, we reflect on how engaging with Intersectionality improves evaluation, positioning us to expose and ultimately …

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LGBT TIG Week: In Support of Abolition and a More Loving Future – Perspectives from LGBTQ+ Evaluators by Esrea Perez-Bill & Dylan Felt

3 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / August 9, 2020

Hey everyone! Esrea Perez-Bill (she/her and they/them) and Dylan Felt (she/her and they/them) here from the EDIT Program to talk LGBTQ+ resistance, abolition of the carceral and police state, and evaluation. As calls to #DefundThePolice have gained national attention, lots of folks are being newly introduced to abolition, and many may be feeling confused, afraid, …

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LGBT TIG Week: Becoming a Better Evaluator for LGBTQ+ Stakeholders: It’s On Us! By Morgan Wright and John LaVelle

6 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / August 8, 2020

Hello, our names are Morgan Wright (he/him/his) and John LaVelle (he/him/his), members of the Evaluation Studies community at the University of Minnesota, and working on a project to critically analyze and make recommendations about how to integrate LGBTQ+ topics and principles into evaluator education programs.  Our premise is: evaluators often do their work from a …

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LGBT TIG Week: Reflections on LGBTQ+ Liberation and Evaluation by Dylan Felt & Rocco Bagnarol

Leave a Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / August 10, 2020

Hi everyone! This is Dylan Felt (she/her and they/them) and Rocco Bagnarol (he/him and they/them) coming to you from the Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT) team at Northwestern University. It’s LGBT TIG week, and we’re reflecting on our practice as LGBTQ+ evaluators (that is, evaluators who are both members of, and working in …

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Policy Governance Week: Tips for Implementing PG by Aimee White & Leslie Goodyear

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 1, 2020

Hello again everyone! Aimee White and Leslie Goodyear here, current (2020) and 2018 AEA Presidents. We hope you have enjoyed the week of posts about Policy Governance (PG) from the AEA Board. We are wrapping up our week with some lessons learned from our PG journey. We were asked to present at the annual Govern …

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Policy Governance Week: Understanding the Board’s Financial Duties by Felicia Bohanon

1 Comment / Uncategorized / August 1, 2020

Greetings. My name is Felicia Bohanon. I was very excited to join the Board as Treasurer after serving on the Financial Advisory Board (FAB) from 2012 – 2015. I served on the FAB during the time that AEA was making its transition to SmithBucklin, our current association management company. Having served on the FAB at …

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Policy Governance Week: Through the Executive Director’s Lens by Anisha Lewis

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 1, 2020

Hello, I’m Anisha Lewis, the Executive Director for AEA. So, what does Policy Governance look like from the Executive Director’s perspective? I see this governing structure as an opportunity to have collective rather than individual decisions that include diverse viewpoints.  Governance is a function of ownership, not management. Therefore, the viewpoints of members are crucial …

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