My name is Jennifer Greene and I am pleased to be serving as the President of the American Evaluation Association for 2011. Lesson Learned: It takes many volunteers to put on our annual conference – over 800 altogether in various roles. On this day of Thanksgiving, I want to give thanks to all of those …
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My name is Käri Greene and I’m a Senior Research Analyst at Program Design & Evaluation Services, an intergovernmental agency for the Oregon Public Health Division and Multnomah County Health Department. I first started using software with qualitative data analysis back when the main QSR product was called NUD*IST. And I’ll admit – I got …
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My name is Käri Greene and I’m a Senior Research Analyst at an intergovernmental agency for the Oregon Public Health Division and Multnomah County Health Department, as well as a co-Chair for the LGBT Issues TIG. Our TIG explores areas of sexuality, gender and identity as they relate to evaluation theory, practice, and use, specifically …
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We are Linda Khumalo and Gert Van Hecken. We collaborate on a project to reimagine M&E from a decolonial perspective. Here we share some lessons learned. Linda is an evaluation practitioner and scholar contributing to the Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) discourse who sees the challenges of applying a transformative evaluative lens. Gert is an …
Hello! We are Rebecca Teasdale (University of Illinois Chicago, USA), Jennifer McNeilly (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA), and María Isabel Ramírez Garzón (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia). We are excited to share key takeaways from a research study we recently published with Judit Novak (University of Oslo, Norway) and Jennifer Greene (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) …
Hi, I’m Dominica McBride, Founder of BECOME and a past student and long-time mentee and co-
conspirator of Stafford Hood. While ineffable, the following words represent just the surface of the depth of influence Stafford Hood had on my life, using my life as just one example of the many lives and minds he shaped.
My name is Ayesha Boyce. I am an associate professor of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University (ASU) and co-lead the STEM Program Evaluation Laboratory. Others within this week have done a beautiful job of highlighting some of Dr. Hood ‘s amazing contributions to our field. So, in my post, I reflect on my first meeting with him and some professional lessons I have learned from him. I met Dr. Hood at a pivotal point in my burgeoning career. I was just 25 years old and working for the Arizona Department of Education (ADOE). My supervisor and colleagues suggested I seek out Dr. Hood to inquire about a PhD program at ASU. I walked into his office at ASU and there were books in stacks on the floor, along the wall, and on his desk. Moving boxes were strewn across the room. Here is my vivid recollection of that meeting.
Hello everyone! I am Rita Sinorita Fierro, editor of this AEA365 week, sharing collective work in our evaluation field. No one transforms in isolation. Reading books and learning new vocabulary is great, but not enough. Personal and collective work transforms ourselves, our communities, and our world. We authors focus not only on what we do …
Greetings from the Gulf Coast Eval Network, and we look forward to welcoming you to New Orleans, Louisiana in just a few short months. You may have previously seen previous posts about topics like the launch of our somewhat new organization, the evaluators without boundaries program, and an entire week of LAWG-developed posts back in June.
Greetings, AEA365 readers! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of the blog. To whet our appetites for this year’s conference in beautiful New Orleans, this week’s posts come to us from the feature the perspectives of the Gulf Coast Eval Network (GCEval) members, where the uniqueness of doing evaluation in the gulf south will be on …
