“I can remember stories …,” Anita Baker, my favorite singer-songwriter, reflects on her experiences in the soulful ballad “Fairy Tales”. The lyrics strike a reflective chord. I hear how she was snapped out of happy fairy tales into the snares of reality. But before I tell you about the realities of being an external program …
Greetings, we are Karyl Askew, Monifa Beverly, and Angelicque Tucker Blackmon, three Black cisgender women evaluators who specialize in culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE). We are continually in reflection with one another about what it means to be and journey as CREE evaluators. As we reflected on this week’s topic, we discussed the journey …
Hello, I am Marcela Gutierrez. As an independent consultant hired by foundations to build evaluation capacity of nonprofits, I know first-hand the efforts they make and the frustrating feeling of not receiving feedback or learning how their contributions inform their funders. I also know busy program officers struggle to perform the competing tasks of grantmaking …
Happy Evaluation 2019! This post, and the space that it discusses, were created collaboratively by and on behalf of members of the evaluation community who have experienced exclusion and harm in professional spaces and in cooperation with AEA: Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro/Bidabinikwe of AEA’s IPE TIG and the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center; Leah Peoples of the …
Greetings AEA Colleagues! When we learned of the 2019 AEA conference theme, Speaking Truth to Power, we instantly knew our evaluative work with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) held meaningful resonance. Our team includes: John Chikwem (jchikwem@lincoln.edu) – NSF PI Lincoln University of Pennsylvania; Toks Fashola – American University; Kevin Favor (kfavor@lincoln.edu) – Lincoln …
Hi! My name is Monique Liston, Chief Strategic Officer at Ubuntu Research and Evaluation. I am a race liberation strategist and evaluator based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As 2016 came to a close, I found myself at a professional crossroads, nearing the end of writing my dissertation and reevaluating my work prospects. I reached out to …
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Hi there! I’m Scout Black, Research Associate at Smith & Lehmann Consulting. For today’s post, I’m tackling the importance of LGBTQ representation and affirmation in research and evaluation, and especially how that impacts young people. A good deal of my time is spent planning and facilitating our Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) interns and research …
Hi again, it’s Laura Peck here, that evaluator from Abt Associates. To close out the Design & Analysis of Experiments TIG’s first week of contributions to the AEA365 blog, I focus on one of the main critiques of experimental evaluations, that known as the “black box” criticism. Experimentally-designed evaluations can isolate the impact of an …
We are Courtney Blackwell, Heather King, and Jeanne Century from Outlier Research & Evaluation at the University of Chicago. For the last 3.5 years, we have been researching and evaluating computer science education efforts. Computer Science (CS) is becoming a buzzword in education, with educators, policymakers, and industry developers promoting CS as key to developing …
Hi there! We’re Anjie Rosga, Director, and Natalie Blackmur, Communications Coordinator, at Informing Change, a strategic consulting firm dedicated to increasing effectiveness and impact in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. In working with clients large and small, we’ve found that organizations are in a better position to learn if they take the time to prepare …
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