Kushé! My name is Hindolo Pokawa, and I am a critical development theorist and practitioner. I founded and now direct the Sierra Leone Foundation for New Democracy (SLFND). Funders often use the term “partnership” loosely. Genuine partnership is a relationship of interdependence and intersubjectivity, which is reflected in the pan-African concept known most commonly by …

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Greetings, colleagues! My name is Marguerite DeSpain. I am holding up my hand, sending you good thoughts and appreciation for listening to my words. I am an independent planning, development, and evaluation consultant with twenty years of experience working with Native non-profits, Tribes, and mainstream organizations. As an Indigenous person, I find myself drawn to …

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Nyob zoo and hello! My anglicized name is Chou Moua. It’s the closest way that people who speak languages without tones can pronounce my name. I’m a unicorn—the only queer Hmong male evaluator that I know of. It doesn’t mean that there are no others, nor does it mean that Hmong people don’t do evaluation. …

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Greetings! I am Nicole MartinRogers, a senior research manager at Wilder Research. I am obsessed with using evaluation and research to inform practices, programs, and policies. I am a lifelong resident of the Twin Cities and I am a descendant of White Earth Nation. I feel honored and obligated to do good evaluation work that …

MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis Week: Evaluating How the State Handled the Civil Unrest Following the Killing of George Floyd by Nicole MartinRogers Read More »

Duaba Unenra here—Program Officer for the Black Movement Ecosystem Fund at Headwaters Foundation for Justice. These are the words of Neema Githere, a guerrilla educator and theorist from Kenya who offered the concept of Afropresentism. Afropresentism is a philosophy and praxis born from the “mothership vision of Afrofuturism,” which reminds us to “claim space boldly …

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