Hello! We are Eric Barela and Lisa Aponte-Soto, AEA Board Members-at-Large and members of the Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse (La RED) TIG. Eric is the Director of Measurement & Evaluation at Salesforce.org and Lisa is the Associate Director of Community Engaged Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Latinx population is one of …
This is Asma Ali, of AA & Associates LLC, in Chicago and Education Working Group Chair of the Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse (La RED) Topical Interest Group. Through the years, I have often been asked why I am an active participant in a diversity TIG that is not representative of my own Indian-American ethnicity. I wanted …
Hello! My name is Ayesha Boyce. I am a co-chair of the Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation (MIE) Topic Interest Group (TIG) and member of the Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse (La RED) TIG. I am also an assistant professor within the Department of Educational Research Methodology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. I am excited …
MIE & La RED TIGs Week: Welcome to MIE & La RED AEA 365 Week by Ayesha Boyce Read More »
Hi there! Sheila B Robinson here, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Acceptance letters for Evaluation 2019 have gone out and I’m getting excited about my presentations. I’m thinking about what content to share, what I want my participants to know, how I will present, what my slides will look like…so much to consider! That’s …
Hello, my name is Stella SiWan Zimmerman, and I am the Founder and President of ACET, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN. A year ago, ACET was selected to evaluate the Hmong American Partnership’s 21st Century Community Learning grant from the Minnesota Department of Education. The Hmong American Partnership collaborates with the Community School of Excellence to …
LAWG Week: Engaging Youth to Improve Program Quality by Stella SiWan Zimmerman Read More »
Greetings from McGregor, Minnesota! I am Cheryl Meld, Afterschool Program Director at McGregor Public School. McGregor is located in Greater Minnesota about 2.5 hours from the Twin Cities (120 miles). I am excited to share my experience about how to approach evaluating the complex 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program. This competitive grant …
LAWG Week: Afterschool Programs: Young People are Evaluation Experts by Cheryl Meld Read More »
My name is Lauren Bloem. I’m an internal evaluator at AchieveMpls. As the strategic nonprofit partner of Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), AchieveMpls rallies community support to inspire and equip Minneapolis youth for careers, college, and life. I led a strategic project this year to learn how youth want to be consulted in Career and College …
LAWG Week: MNEA and Youth Evaluation by Lauren Bloem Read More »
My name is Claire Dunlap. I serve on the Minnesota Evaluation Association (MNEA) board as program co-chair and work at Youthprise as director of organizational effectiveness. I’m here to share how and why we engage youth in our processes and decisions at Youthprise, and it starts with our mission. Youthprise’s mission is to reduce disparities …
LAWG Week: Centering Youth by Claire Dunlap Read More »
Hello! We’re Katie Fritz Fogel and Selam Tilahun, Research Associates at Rainbow Research, a nonprofit evaluation and applied community research firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building, Sally Leiderman challenges evaluators to imagine “What would anti-racist evaluation look like?” We see evaluation as one tool for anti-racist community building …
LAWG Week: Evaluation Firms: Let’s Hire Youth! by Katie Fritz Fogel and Selam Tilahun Read More »
Wakinyan miye yelo Sicangu Lakota Oyate hematanhan. Lakowicoh’an waun welo. My name is Wakinyan LaPointe, I am from the Burnt Thigh Lakota Nation. I am here to kick off a full week of blogs about youth-engaged evaluation on behalf of the Minnesota Evaluation Association, acting as the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) planning for AEA …
LAWG Week: WOPASI: Indigenous Youth Research & Development Center by Wakinyan LaPointe Read More »
