Researchers often have a reputation among Native communities similar to mosquitoes—they take what they need and leave, often without considering the impact of their actions or sharing the results with the community. We’re Lizzy Ferrara and Emily Wright, and we work on advancing equity-driven public health and justice with an emphasis on Indigenous communities. We as researchers …
My name is Anna Farr, and I’m a research analyst at the Urban Institute focused on increasing families’ access to resources and bringing lived experience to research. And I’m Teresa Derrick-Mills, a senior fellow with 30 years of experience as a practitioner and researcher studying and improving early care and education systems. We’re writing this …
Hi, we’re Olivia Dunn, Jenna Williams, and Jimena Vallejo, members of the email marketing team at the Urban Institute—a policy research organization whose mission is to drive impact by equipping changemakers with evidence and solutions. What matters to us is getting research into the hands of the people who will make it actionable. We achieve …
Hi Everyone, my name is Najat Elgeberi and I work as an assistant professor for program evaluation at the University of Nevada Reno-Extension. In my career I used to do a lot of consultancy work in the field of evaluation. I had to analyze data, create visuals and write reports. The most challenging part was …
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Hello everyone! This is Shelly Engelman and Tom Withee. While we’ve shared many examples in the past on building interactive data dashboards in Excel, we’re thrilled to introduce you to a powerful tool for visualizing data: interactive QUALITATIVE dashboards. While many of us are familiar with visualizing quantitative data, open-ended survey responses often get overlooked …
Hi. I am David Fetterman. I am the president of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation firm. I am also the past-president of the American Evaluation Association and a co-chair of the Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation TIG (with Liliana Rodríguez). I am the recipient of the Myrdal Award for Practice, the Lazarsfeld Award for …
Hi! My name is Gwen Davis, and I am a Senior Data Communications Specialist at the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). We regularly conduct program evaluations and nationally representative surveys to gather the most up-to-date data on local health departments in the United States. As researchers and evaluators, we often share …
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Hi, I’m Gretchen Biesecker, Principal Consultant with Bee’s Knees Consulting LLC in Somerville, MA. Most of my work focuses on evaluation capacity-building with nonprofits. I’ve been fascinated by data physicalization—collecting, visualizing, engaging with data using tactile and physical forms. In 2019, I participated in a survey with strings at a Points of Light conference and …
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Hi! I am Chithra Adams, and I serve as the Associate Vice President for Data Intelligence at VentureWell. VentureWell is a national nonprofit headquartered in Hadley, Massachusetts, that specializes in funding, training, and cultivating a pipeline of science and technology inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs. Together with our partners, we are driven to solve the world’s …
The Future of Evaluation of STEM Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Chithra Adams Read More »
Hello! We’re Jacki Purtell and Samantha Langan, Senior Data Intelligence Analysts with VentureWell’s Data Intelligence team. VentureWell is a national nonprofit headquartered in Hadley, Massachusetts, that specializes in funding, training, and cultivating a pipeline of science and technology inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs. Together with our partners, we are driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges …
