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We are Tasha Boyer, Tamara Douglas, Vanessa Hiratsuka, and Nathan Rabang, research and evaluation staff at the Center for Human Development at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Our center’s mission is to improve the quality of lives for people who experience disabilities and their families, across the lifespan, through interdisciplinary training, technical assistance, exemplary service …

AKEN Affiliate Week: on Inclusion of Individuals with Disabilities in Disabilities Research, Evaluation and Surveillance Teams by Tasha Boyer, Tamara Douglas, Vanessa Hiratsuka, and Nathan Rabang Read More »

Hello, I’m Cassie Pinkel, Research Integrity Administrator in the Office of Research Integrity at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. AKEN webmaster Alda Norris is an evaluator who has sought advice from our office, and she invited me to share some resources about the advantages of connecting with your local Institutional Review Board (IRB). Is there …

AKEN Affiliate Week: Is This More Than an Evaluation? Ask Your IRB by Cassie Pinkel Read More »

The global peacebuilders are coming and I, Michelle Garred, am one of them. We are American peace practitioners and evaluators who built our careers in other countries. We are now re-focusing on the USA in response to the laying bare of the longstanding lack of peace in our own country. We have good intentions, useful …

White Privilege Awareness Week: Relationship with Our Own Country: Confessions of a Returning Globalist by Michelle Garred Read More »

Hello! We are an interdependent coalition of illegitimate, invalid, alien, non-conforming, under-represented folx committed to collective liberation (in no hierarchical order): Albertina Lopez, Aisha Rios, Sheri Scott, Vidhya Shanker, Libby Smith, and Carolyn Camman. We are six of eight organizers who have been collaboratively contributing our labor to challenge the perpetuation of whiteness in and …

Decolonizing Evaluation Week: Unearthing Evaluation’s Roots by Albertina Lopez, Aisha Rios, Sheri Scott, Vidhya Shanker, Libby Smith, and Carolyn Camman Read More »

Greetings from Sheri Scott and Coco Villaluz. Coco is Hidatsa, Assiniboine and Chamorro. CoCo considers herself a student and her main mission is to honor her ancestors’ teachings to continue a good way of life. Sheri (she/her/they) is an evaluation consultant, writing from the beautiful lands of the HoChunk near the confluence of the Mississippi and …

Decolonizing Evaluation Week: Who Tells the Story? Decolonizing Dissemination by Sheri Scott and Coco Villaluz Read More »