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MSI Fellowship Week: The Journey Continues, by the ’23-’24 AEA MSI Fellows

Leave a Comment / Minority Serving Institution Fellowship Program / September 4, 2024

Because the purpose of the AEA’s Minority Serving Institution (MSI)  fellowship is to “increase the participation of evaluators and academics from underrepresented groups in the profession of evaluation and in the American Evaluation Association,” as ’23-’24 MSI Fellows, we selected the world of CREE under the leadership of Prof. Arthur E. Hernández as a thematic …

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LGBTQ+ TIG Week: Intersectionality in Practice by Michael G. Curtis

1 Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / September 1, 2024

Hi all! My name is Michael Curtis (he/him), and I’m speaking (kind of) to you from the Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT) team at Northwestern University.

During 2020’s LGBT TIG week, my colleagues at EDIT wrote a piece focused on how important it was for evaluators to engage with the concept of intersectionality actively (see here). This year I want to dive deeper into what it means to apply this framework practically.

Navigating Challenges and Unveiling Insights: A Reflection on Evaluating the Young Emerging Evaluators (YEE) Program in Mongolia by Shelli Golson-Mickens, Nada Mousa, and Jennifer Ottolino

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / August 14, 2024

Greetings! We are Shelli Golson-Mickens, Nada Mousa, and Jennifer Ottolino, alumni of American University’s Measurement and Evaluation Program, which has a partnership with the Mongolian Evaluation Association (MEA) to collaborate on evaluations, trainings, and other projects. 

ToE TIG Week: Revolutionizing Teaching Evaluation: The Transformative Role of Artificial Intelligence by Samuel Isiko, Krisanna Machtmes, and Doreen Otieno

Leave a Comment / Teaching of Evaluation / July 31, 2024

This blog has been authored by Samuel Isiko, doctoral student in the program of Educational Research and Evaluation at Ohio University, Dr. Krisanna Machtmes, Associate Professor at Ohio University, and Doreen Otieno, doctoral student in the program of Educational Research and Evaluation at Ohio University. In this blog, we are excited to share with you our …

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Lived Experience as Knowledge Contribution in Evaluation by Kiani Oro

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 23, 2024

Hi there! My name is Kiani. I am an evaluator at Evaluation + Learning Consulting and a Social Welfare PhD student at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). I recently completed an evaluation of an innovative program funded by New York Community Trust (NYCT) and developed by Alexandra Martinez, the Director of Adult Services at Kingsbridge Heights Community Center (KHCC) in the Bronx, NY. This exciting program provides support to bilingual social work students at Lehman College during an academic year; consisting of monthly coaching calls in Spanish, six culturally responsive seminars, and a final presentation.

Independent Consulting (IC) TIG Week: Why Claiming Neutrality Creates Harm by Naaima Khan

Leave a Comment / Independent Consulting / June 30, 2024

Hi, I’m Naaima Khan. I am an evaluation, strategic planning, and facilitation design consultant with my business, Create Good, based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I have spent the past five years helping my clients, who are social good organizations, collective impact groups and intermediaries, operationalize their commitments to racial and economic justice. And in that …

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Community Development TIG Week: Navigating Evaluation Approaches for Community Development Impact by Norma Kok

Leave a Comment / Community Development / May 22, 2024

Hi! I’m Norma Kok, and I lead the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Department at Citizen Leader Lab in Cape Town, South Africa. I hold a Master’s degree in Public Health and extensive experience (16 years) in monitoring and evaluation in various national and international organizations. Over the years I have witnessed the transformative power …

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Cluster, Multi-Site, and Multi-Level Evaluation (CMME) TIG Week: Fueling Evaluation Momentum Across Multiple Sites with Limited Funding by Heidi Kahle, Tori Pilman, Kirsten Albers, and Jenica Reed

Leave a Comment / Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluation / June 1, 2024

Hi, we are Heidi Kahle, Tori Pilman, Kirsten Albers, and Jenica Reed from Deloitte’s Evaluation and Research for Action Center of Excellence. As evaluation consultants, we work with federal clients to design and implement evaluations and share learnings to inform future action in the field. While we often evaluate across funded programs, at times funding …

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Cluster, Multi-Site, and Multi-Level Evaluation (CMME) TIG Week: Exploring the Potential of NLP in Evaluation: Techniques, Use Cases, and How to Get Started by Juliette Berlin, Amy Shim, and Sarah Bergman

Leave a Comment / Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluation / June 1, 2024

Part 1: Rationale for using NLP for Evaluation  Hello, we are Juliette Berlin, Amy Shim, and Sarah Bergman, evaluation and data specialists with Deloitte Consulting LLP. With the recent buzz surrounding Generative AI (GenAI), there is increasing interest in how to best leverage emerging technologies to advance evaluation needs. Here, we discuss a fundamental driver …

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International and Cross-Cultural (ICCE) TIG Week: Using Storytelling to Understand Network Capacity Strengthening by Toyin Akpan, Carlisle Levine, Melisa March, and Hippolyt Pul

Leave a Comment / International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / June 1, 2024

Greetings! We are the Ananse team, a collaborative of solo and small evaluation firms. We come together from Arbor West Consulting (Jamaica), Auricle Services (Nigeria), BLE Solutions (USA), and the Institute for Peace and Development (Ghana). As strategy evaluation partner for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Catholic Sisters Initiative (CSI), we wanted to identify an …

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