I’m Sharla Berry, PhD, a Fellow of the Minority Serving Institutions initiative of the American Evaluation Association and Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at California Lutheran University. Education leaders are often on the receiving end of evaluation. When government agencies or accrediting bodies make decisions about evaluation, they often fail to collect …
My name is Omari Jackson, Ph.D. I am an Assistant Professor of Urban Educational Leadership at Morgan State University and a member of the 2019 cohort of the Minority Serving Institutions initiative of the American Evaluation Association. Lesson Learned: Culturally responsive leadership is commonly discussed as a necessity in K-12 schools serving black and brown …
My name is Art Hernandez and I am a Professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. I participated in one of the very early yearlong experiences as an AEA MSI Fellow and have served as the Director for several cohorts most recently this past year. I serve and have served …
Dear AEA Community, Today will begin a series of Saturday blogs that provide a space for us to reflect on and exchange information about our practice as evaluators in response to today’s global pandemic. This week we will address how to adapt our roles to the needs of the service providers with whom we work. Next week, we will look at tools and best practices for educators and …
Reflecting on the Role of Evaluator During This Global Pandemic by Miranda Yates Read More »
Greetings! We are Lisa Danielson Gierach and Katie Winters, independent evaluation consultants. As white practitioners committed to dismantling racism, we have become peer supports to each other by sharing resources, talking through missteps, and holding each other accountable. Here we share two examples of our missteps with BIPOC* communities we supported each other through. Lisa’s …
Letting Go of Perfectionism by Lisa Danielson Gierach & Katie Winters Read More »
I’m Heather Mack of Heather Mack Consulting. I co-create liberatory, abolitionist approaches to data, evaluation, and research. I’m also recovering from white saviorism. Still popular among progressives, white saviorism is the racist belief that people of color can’t get themselves out of their “situation,” so they need help. Specifically, white help. Letting go of white …
Letting Go of White Saviorism by Heather Mack Read More »
Hello! I’m Libby Smith (@work_with_libby), an educator and evaluator at the University of Wisconsin – Stout. My work focuses on building equity and accessibility in evaluation through holistic personal growth & embodiment practices. As evaluators, we love to think that we can analyze our way out of any problem. In Western culture, we hold rational …
Letting Go of Thought Worship: Embodied Racial Healing by Libby Smith Read More »
Hi, I’m Meredith Reitman, President of Reitman Research and Strategy, which provides research for organizations looking to explore racial dynamics in the workplace. I’m white. In this post I’m digging into the psychology behind white fragility, trying to answer the question of why we white folks act this way so that we can eventually make …
Letting Go of Good by Meredith Reitman Read More »
I am Martha Brown, president of RJAE Consulting. As I grow in my understanding of how white supremacy manifests in myself and the world, it becomes more evident in my arts evaluation work. My story concerns a program evaluation in an art museum. Art museums are known white spaces; the American Alliance of Museums reported …
I’m Rita Sinorita Fierro, CEO of Fierro Consulting, LLC. It’s my honor to introduce this week’s colleagues I’ve grown to love. Conversations about white privilege are often about what we as whites have: formal power, institutional support, unearned advantages. These conversations often end badly, because many people have experienced lack of advantages (due to gender, …
So We’ve Got Privilege! What Are We Willing to Let Go of? by Rita Sinorita Fierro Read More »
