Hi, I am Jara Dean-Coffey, founder of Luminare Group and The Equitable Evaluation Initiative, and an AEA board member. Thinking about how to deal with push back in social-justice-oriented evaluation takes me back to the beginning of my career.
Hi, I am Jara Dean-Coffey, founder of Luminare Group and The Equitable Evaluation Initiative, and an AEA board member. Thinking about how to deal with push back in social-justice-oriented evaluation takes me back to the beginning of my career. When I started in consulting in California, it was a different landscape. Conversion foundations were emerging, …
Happy Saturday! I’m Liz Zadnik with another Saturday post. As you may know, I am part of the anti-sexual violence movement and work at a state sexual assault coalition – my main focus being prevention and community engagement. Today is International Social Justice Day and I would like today’s post to be celebration by sharing …
Liz Zadnik on #SocialJusticeDay 2016 Read More »
We are Nubia Goodwin (Research Associate) and Carolyn Fisher (Research and Evaluation Scientist) of the Institute for Community Health. We are both members of a project team that conducted a social network analysis as part of our evaluation of a multi-year, national funding project focused on community power building.
Hi! I’m Dr. Rita Sinorita Fierro from Fierro Consulting, LLC. I started the firm in 2008 and ever since then, I’ve had the honor of having several organizational development professionals as friends and colleagues. Three of them were Black women. Their unique understanding of the interplay of systemic racism and leadership culture in organizations shifted …
Howdy! I’m Dawn Valentine, founder of the Variable Scoop. I would like to share how photovoice can support community-based initiatives for environmental justice with health outcomes. We use tools that empower people who are typically excluded from decision-making processes and education to raise awareness of social and environmental issues. In addressing environmental injustice and environmental …
My name is John Gargani. I’m a former AEA President, and I have a deep interest in how impact investors, social entrepreneurs, and other new actors measure their impact. At Evaluation 2022, I introduced the idea of Zones of Greater Scrutiny, or ZOGS, to help evaluators defend against impact washing. In this post, I describe …
Hi, I am Andrea Azevedo, a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) practitioner who very recently moved from leading MEL in the social justice sector to the brave new world of impact management and measurement (IMM) for impact investments with Soros Economic Development Fund. In this blog, I want to share three questions with MEL practitioners …
We are Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo (principal of TERSHA LLC, a Ghanaian-American who embraces her intersectional facets of being a wife and mom in her work, and is a community scholar-activist who found her path from engineering into public health. Her work is rooted in culturally responsive and equitable tools for co-designing research and evaluation initiatives with …
Hello, my name is Tamarah Moss, PhD, MPH, MSW I am the program co-chair for AEA Social Work TIG and an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College. My training and practice areas are in both social work and public health. One of my main practice areas is …
Social Work TIG Week: Evaluating Community-Campus Partnerships by Tamarah Moss Read More »
