Good Day! I am Michel Lahti, PhD and CEO at LeCroy & Milligan Associates, Inc. an evaluation firm located in the Old Pueblo – Tucson, Arizona. Currently, I am serving as the Tucson Region Chair for the Arizona Evaluation Network. I have conducted and managed evaluation services in state government, university settings and now in …
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Hi, my name is Marisol Diaz and I am a research analyst with Arizona State University’s Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (also a member of #AZENet!). This year my New Year’s resolution is to meditate more often. Although we breathe all day long without thinking, I find it rewarding to take a moment to focus on …
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Hello! I’m Deven Wisner, Consultant for Empact Solutions and Wisner Analytics, LLC. I’m also the Communications Chair for the Arizona Evaluation Network. As we think about fundamentals in evaluation, we can’t forget data visualization and reporting (DVR). In fact, if you ask me, that’s where the FUN in fundamental comes in! Realizing that capacity and …
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Hello! I am Scott Swagerty, PhD, President-Elect for the Arizona Evaluation Network and the Methodologist for the Office of the Arizona Auditor General. I work primarily in the Performance Audit Division which conducts audits to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of Arizona state agencies and programs. I am responsible for organizing Arizona Evaluation Network’s annual conference …
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I’m Jenny McCullough Cosgrove (independent evaluator). I believe collaborative and participatory work in evaluation projects leads to rich learning. There are many ways to work with various stakeholders to support engagement and use in evaluation work and I am always adding strategies to my #Eval toolbox. Here are a few of my favorite ways to …
We are the Arizona Evaluation Network’s President Jenny McCullough Cosgrove, President-Elect Scott Swagerty, and Communications Chair Deven Wisner, and we are excited to kick of the 2019 Arizona Evaluation Network week of AEA365. Our upcoming Annual Conference is centered around re-focusing on #Eval fundamentals of practice. Over this week we will revisit core data visualization …
My name is Kristin Fields, and I am the editor for AEA’s monthly newsletter. I work with AEA members who serve as volunteer contributors for our newsletter on a regular basis. Their experience, expertise and stories make our newsletter a rich, informative resource for AEA members. If you manage your own blog, you may want …
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Hello! I am Heather Britt, Senior M&E Specialist with Social Solutions International, the contractor for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Expanding Monitoring and Evaluation Capacities Building Task Order (MECap). I co-authored the Outcome Harvesting brief with Ricardo in 2012 and I have been supporting the use of Outcome Harvesting (OH) and other …
Hi, I am Barbara Klugman, an independent evaluator based in South Africa. I use outcomes harvesting mostly for evaluating progress of social justice advocacy initiatives and outcomes of training initiatives. I also support funders in using it for monitoring progress and strategic learning about their grantmaking portfolios. OH can reveal processes and patterns of change …
Hi, I’m Heidi Schaeffer, chair of the global Outcome Mapping Learning Community and mentee of Ricardo Wilson-Grau, author of Outcome Harvesting: Principles, Steps and Evaluation Applications. My consulting focuses on multi-partner strategy, monitoring and evaluation for community health and wellbeing. I use an equity-informed Outcome Harvesting approach to monitor health equity with healthcare organizations that …
