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 …

LEEAD Fellows Alumni Curated Week: Creating Safe, Inclusive, & Empowering Spaces for Youth in Research and Evaluation by Tanisha Tate Woodson Read More »

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 …

LEEAD Fellows Alumni Curated Week: How to Shift from a Deficit to a Systems or Asset Approach in our Evaluation Work by Nitya Venkateswaran Read More »

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 …

LEEAD Fellows Alumni Curated Week: Evaluation: A Dirty Word by Chelsey Branham Read More »

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 …

LEEAD Fellows Alumni Curated Week: Considerations for Using Comparison Groups to Examine Equality, Equity or Social Justice by Jaymie Lorthridge Read More »

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, …

LEEAD Fellows Alumni Curated Week: Advancing Data Equity through Culturally Responsive and Equitable Data Parties by Chandria Jones Read More »

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 …

LEEAD Fellows Alumni Curated Week: Magnifying Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation (CREE) and Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluation (CRIE) in Connection to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) by Tamarah Moss, Kimberly Harris, Rachel Powell, Jochebed Gayles, and Jennifer Garcia Read More »

Hello, AEA365 community! We are G.M Shah (Principal Evaluation Specialist) and Farid Ahmad (Chief, Strategic Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning). We both work with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). ICIMOD is a regional intergovernmental knowledge organization serving eight Regional Member Countries (RMCs) of Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) Region. Our headquarters is based in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Hello, I’m Jacqueline Singh, MPP, PhD (she/her), an evaluator and program design advisor based in Indianapolis, Indiana. I identify as a first generation low income (FGLI)—and, nontraditional college graduate. What does it mean to be a FGLI and nontraditional college student? For me, it means that I experienced most of the higher education pipeline as a single parent. And, I received degrees from different types of higher education institutions (i.e., community college, state university, prestigious private university). Work responsibilities, at all stages of life, prevented me from participating in extra-curricular activities. My focus had to be on the workplace, coursework, GPA, paying bills, providing for and raising two children—not necessarily in that order. I also attended the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) to earn a PhD in higher education. The pathway I took was tough, but it was a viable one. Consequently, I refer to myself as a “Pipeline PhD.”