“In its own way, evaluation is a process of art.” Crystal Meneses My name is Crystal Meneses, and I am an interdisciplinary artist who engages in arts practices that inspire social change. I speak creativity and my dialects are music, visual arts, and storytelling. I am also neurodivergent, queer, and a woman of color – these …

LAWG Week: Learning New Languages Together: Communication Across Evaluation and Art by Crystal Meneses Read More »

We are Amani Austin, founder of Austin Advocates With, LLC, and Katie Winters, principal consultant for Insight for Action, LLC. Amani is most proud of her lived experience as a black woman and a first-generation college graduate using the wisdom of her lived experience and cultural wealth to shape her approach to evaluation and facilitation. …

LAWG Week: Equitable Evaluators as Collaborators and Co-creators in Shifting Evaluation Practice: Unlearning White Supremacy Culture by Amani Austin and Katie Winters Read More »

We are Nelda Reyes, of AB Cultural Drivers, and Kim Leonard, Leonard Research & Evaluation (pictured here with Ingrid, one of the Alliance business coaches, during a site visit to her office in early 2024). We have been working in partnership on an evaluation of the Oregon Child Care Alliance, and appreciate this opportunity to …

LAWG Week: The Art of the Community Engagement Spectrum in Evaluation by Kim Leonard and Nelda Reyes Read More »

We are Oregon State University’s STEM Research Center (SRC), a team of dedicated professionals of various disciplinary backgrounds who conduct applied research and evaluation on STEM learning and education, science communication, and STEM engagement (figure 1).  Working at the intersection of research, practice, and policy, we focus on equity and social justice and strive to …

LAWG Week: A Totality Awe-some Eclipse: OSU’s STEM Research Center Conducts Evaluation during the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse by Oregon State University’s STEM Research Center Read More »

I’m Steve Patty with Dialogues In Action. Over the past decade, my team has worked with over 500 organizations, mostly nonprofits, to build their capacity to do credible self-studies of their impact. Helping people do a self-study can be brilliant. It can also be fraught with peril. These are a few lessons learned we’ve learned …

LAWG Week: Secrets to Guiding a Self-Study: Helping People Evaluate for Themselves by Steve Patty Read More »

Greetings! We’re Jean-Marie Callan and Becky Seel, members of the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) Research & Learning team who enjoy exploring opportunities to learn among and alongside the projects we fund. In Oregon, Chinook salmon migrate many miles from the Pacific Ocean back to their natal waters in the Columbia River Basin, aided by inherited …

LAWG Week: Evaluating From the Ground Up with Learning Communities by Jean-Marie Callan and Becky Seel Read More »

Hi there. I’m Corey Newhouse, Founder and Principal of Public Profit. I had the honor of curating two weeks’ worth of AEA365 blogs from Oregon-based evaluators as part of the lead up to this year’s AEA conference. This week’s posts feature a variety of case studies of Oregon evaluators in action. Our authors share stories …

LAWG Week: Welcome (Back) to Oregon Evaluators’ Week! by Corey Newhouse Read More »