Greetings! I’m Paula Richardson from Salanga, an organization dedicated to reimagining monitoring and evaluation practices for community ownership, gender equality, and transformative change. Through our work with 50+ communities worldwide, we have gained insights and identified key takeaways from implementing a Community-Led monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning approach (CoLMEAL).

Greetings, again, from our Co-Editors-in-Chief, Rodney Hopson and Laura Peck. Now that you have met our committed and accomplished team of Associate and Section Editors, along with an Editorial Board member and frequent reviewer, we are ready for your input and engagement with the journal. In order for us to carry out the vision we stated in our recent opening post in this series, we rely on our informed readership and your contributions to continue to be a premier outlet for the field of evaluation. 

Kia ora everyone. This is Bob Williams beaming in from Aotearoa, New Zealand. I am pleased to contribute to the AJE’s dedicated AEA365 week by sharing my perspective as a frequent journal manuscript reviewer.?  

My name is Thomas Archibald (Executive Director of the Center for International Research, Education, and Development and Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education at Virginia Tech). As part of my efforts to serve the field of evaluation, I have a handful of roles with evaluation journals, including on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Evaluation (AJE). I’ve experienced the benefits of such roles, and I’m happy to share some related insights with you, regrouped into three themes: (1) serving, (2) learning, and (3) shaping.? But first, what does editorial board service entail?

We are Nicky Bowman, Ayesha Boyce, and Gregory Phillips II, the new co-editors for the Ethics, Values & Culture Section of AJE. We have lived experiences in an ever-changing and intersectional world that few academic publications address as a normal part of scholarship, governance, professionalization, and publication agreements. We bring our praxis and scholarship, which …

American Journal of Evaluation Week: Meet AJE’s Ethics, Values & Culture Section Editors by Nicky Bowman, Ayesha Boyce, and Gregory Phillips II Read More »

Happy New Year! We are Alysson Akiko Oakley, PhD (Vice President, Pact) and Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa, PhD (Associate Professor and Research Director, Wits School of Governance). We serve as the new co-editors of the International Developments in Evaluation section of the American Journal of Evaluation. We are evaluation educators and practitioners and are delighted to join the AJE team. We share a love of learning, of supporting research in evaluation, and of advancing diverse experiences and perspectives. We come to our role as editors with a desire to increase the dissemination of these experiences and perspectives, with the hope of improving the practice of evaluation.

Greetings! We are Vivana Rodriguez & Brian Yates, the new Economic Evaluation Section editors for AJE. After introducing ourselves, this AEA365 blogpost shares our first call for submissions and more! 

Greetings current or future journal reviewers! My name is Shannon Hitchcock, PhD (she/her/hers) and I am a quantitative sociologist, public health evaluator, and, since February 2023, the Managing Editor of the American Journal of Evaluation. I am here to, hopefully, encourage you to become an active reviewer for AJE, if not already! The content of …

American Journal of Evaluation Week: AJE’s Managing Editor Discusses Why & How to be a Journal Reviewer by Shannon Hitchcock Read More »

Liz DiLuzio here, wrapping up our Meet the Team week with our most important collaborators who help us to keep the American Evaluation Association (AEA) going: you! AEA runs on a robust network of volunteers and interested parties. If you’re looking for a round up of ways to get (further) involved in our community, here …

Meet The Team: You! by Elizabeth DiLuzio Read More »

My name is Zachary Grays and I am the Senior Membership and Operations Manager here at the American Evaluation Association (AEA). AEA plays an important part in shaping the career journey and identity of our approximately 5,0000 members as their professional home. At the core of the AEA member community are our Topical Interest Groups (TIGs), exclusive member communities defined around a special topic or interest whereby the knowledge, experience, and skills of each member can become a resource that the entire community can leverage. I LOVE our TIGs! And here is the simple reason why you should too: TIGs are the way to find your people.