Hi, I’m Jessica Byrnes, and I’m a member of the AEA marketing team. With Evaluation 2019 only a few months away, I felt inspired to share some tips for those of you planning to present or speak at an upcoming meeting. Hopefully, these tips will help you take the leap from event attendee to speaker extraordinaire—while …
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Hi. My name is Catherine Dun Rappaport. I am the Vice President of Learning and Impact Measurement at BlueHub Capital. BlueHub is a national, nonprofit, community development financial institution (CDFI) dedicated to building healthy communities where low-income people live and work. I used to work in applied evaluation and learning at United Way of Mass …
We are Audrey Jordan (evaluation consultant and executive life coach in Southern California at audreyjordan2012@gmail.com) and Tom Kelly (VP Knowledge, Evaluation & Learning at Hawai‘i Community Foundation at tkelly@hcf-hawaii.org) and we used to work together helping create local learning partnerships of evaluators and community residents in cities across the US as part of a 10-year, …
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Hi, I am Roman Katsnelson of KRD Consulting Group in Calgary, Canada. We provide organizational development supports to social good organizations across Canada and the US. As part of our work, we use evaluation practice and evaluation capacity building to amplify collective learning and augment collective efficacy. Why does the work of neighbourhood development and …
I’m Doug Easterling, Ph.D, a faculty member at Wake Forest School of Medicine. For the past 27 years I’ve been immersed in and fascinated by the work that foundations do to promote community-building and community-based problem-solving. I was the Director of Research and Evaluation at The Colorado Trust when the foundation experimented with approaches like …
Hi AEA Members! I’m Tom David and I’ve been working in and around “organized” philanthropy for 30 years. About ten years ago I was asked to advise a large foundation on how to think about evaluating a planned 10-year multi-site, “place-based” initiative. As talking points for a conversation with them, I jotted down the following …
Greetings! I am David Chavis. My path as a student of community change started as a direct action community organizer, and included community development corporation directorships, strategist for organizing thousands of block associations in New York City, professor, evaluator, trainer, consultant, and CEO. I would like to share what I believe are among the most …
Hi I’m Grisel (pronounced Gruh-cell) Robles-Schrader, Director of Evaluation, Stakeholder-Academic Resource Panels (ShARPs), and Director of the Applied Practice Experience at Northwestern University. I am also co-chair of the Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse (La RED) TIG. Community engagement evaluation creates “processes for many people in a community to bring their experience, knowledge and dreams to …
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Hi there! I’m Satlaj Dighe, doctoral candidate in Evaluation Studies program at University of Minnesota. Before joining the Ph.D. program, I worked with diverse communities in India and South-east Asia as a health trainer, researcher and community mobilizer. These are my thoughts on how to navigate power and politics working with diverse and multicultural communities. …
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Greetings good people, Geri Peak here. I work to transform ‘selves and systems, countering racism through evaluation, training, facilitation and arts integrated learning with a collaborative of professionals in Baltimore and Beyond. Mindelyn Andeson and I hosted a thinking and healing space inspired by how white privilege, superiority and fragility infringed upon program activities, quality …
