Hi, I am Amber Lewis, an evaluator with Goshen Consulting. I have a background in social work and experience working with nonprofits and funders in the St. Louis region. As I began my journey into evaluation, I was excited to make the lives of program staff and those they serve better and easier by empowering …
Hello! I am Dr. Jessica S. Krim, and I joined Goshen Consulting as a researcher in June of 2023. My background is in STEM Education and Teacher Education, and I’ve been involved in these fields in various roles since before the internet. My career transition from academia to an evaluation firm has faced several challenges …
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Hello, I am Tom Withee, an experienced educator, education researcher, adjunct faculty, and senior researcher for Goshen Consulting. After a long stint as a high school science teacher, I joined Goshen Consulting to share my passion for education and clear, concise communication through program evaluation. What I want to share today is the importance of …
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Hi! I am Matt Feldmann with Goshen Consulting, an independent consulting firm that supports people dedicated to strengthening education and mental health systems through program design and evaluation, organizational development, and research. For this AEA 365 week, my colleagues and I are celebrating Goshen’s 15th anniversary. We would never have been able to grow the …
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Hello All! We are Karen Chen (Independent Consultant), Dylan Diggs (Contractor to the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s Office of Global Programs’ Applied Learning and Evaluation DRL/GP/ALE team in the U.S. Department of State) and Pragati Godbole (EnCompass LLC). Under a DRL contract with Encompass, LLC, we collaborated for the past three years …
I am Bret Barrowman, and I manage evaluation and research projects for IRI, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advances democracy around the world. USAID, a major funder of our work, released a new policy for democracy, human rights, and governance (DRG) assistance, including a commitment to four key principles, two of which are related to …
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Greetings, we are Amy Jersild, PhD candidate, and Michael Harnar, Assistant Professor, from Western Michigan University. We have been thinking about ways to use evaluation to address inequities and imbalances of power within global governance, a term used to characterize systems of decision-making among international actors. A significant trend since the early 2000s is the …
We are Awuor Ponge and Irene Karimi. Awuor Ponge is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the African Policy Centre (APC), and serves as the Vice-President of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA). Irene Karimi is the Chief of Party of the USAID-funded State Accountability, Transparency and Effectiveness (State2State) Activity in Nigeria, implemented by DAI Global …
Happy International Day of Democracy! We are Yana Ropaieva, Marian Ware, Ramsey Rodriguez, Alyson Kozma, and Marcia Mundt from the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) Inclusive Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (IMEL) working group. We are excited that USAID’s new Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) Policy emphasizes inclusion as the first of …
My name is Linda Stern, Global Director for Design, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (DMEL) at the National Democratic Institute. I’m also the Evaluation Lead for the Fundamental Freedoms Fund (FFF), a consortium of nine leading INGOs dedicated to advancing democracy, human rights and governance through a rapid response democracy assistance mechanism. Challenges of Rapid Response …
