Greetings! I’m Brad Watts, the Assistant Director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. During my eight-plus years in this role, I’ve had time to observe many of the unique ways our center has worked to be successful and survive for over 50(!) years. One way for a university-based evaluation center such as ours …
Hi, I’m Samantha Hooker, and I serve as senior marketing specialist with The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. One of the exciting parts of my job is overseeing and marketing our long-standing speaker series, Evaluation Café. It’s a space for evaluators to come together to learn about and discuss new ideas. Let’s rewind to …
Hello! I’m Lori Wingate, director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University. In 1999, less than two years after starting my job at The Evaluation Center, I was charged with developing and curating an online collection of evaluation checklists as part of a National Science Foundation-funded project to support STEM evaluators in their practice. …
Hello, we are Lyssa Wilson Becho and Michael Harnar, co-executive editors of the Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation (JMDE). Lyssa works in The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University (WMU) as a principal research associate, and Michael is the director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation at WMU. In today’s blog post, we want to highlight …
Hello! I’m Lori Wingate, the executive director of The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University (WMU). This week of AEA365 celebrates The Evaluation Center’s 50 years at WMU. In this blog, I share a bit of the center’s history and factors I believe have contributed to our success and sustainability, mainly for the benefit of …
I’m Dan Turner, Ph.D., and I serve as the Assistant Director of the Community-Engaged Data and Evaluation Collaborative (CEDEC) at the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. A recently launched initiative, CEDEC connects campus, nonprofit, and public agency partners, leveraging Brown’s resources to advance data and evaluation capacity in …
My name is David Stanton Robinson, EdD. As the President of DSRobinson & Associates, I have over 35 years of expertise in consulting and evaluation in the mental health, early childhood education, healthcare, and higher education sectors. I’ve collaborated with Rhode Island public health groups, and I’m a member of the Evaluation Network of Rhode …
My name is Jennifer Latham and I am the Evaluator for Rhode Island’s Health Equity Zone (HEZ) Initiative and a graduate student at Brown University. Working with the HEZ, I have gained a mindset for evaluation that aligns with a community-led, place-based vision of health equity. I truly enjoy the evaluative challenge of my role …
Hello, I am Cynthia Roberts, PhD, evaluator at the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV). Over the last nearly ten years I have been leading the evaluation of our Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded work in the primary prevention of intimate partner violence. I am a co-founder of the Evaluation Network of Rhode …
Hello, we are Katie Murray, Jenny Pereira, and Inés Merchan from the Rhode Island Foundation’s Grants and Community Investments team. Our community foundation was founded in 1916 with a gift of $10,000. Last year, gifts totaled $75 million and grants equaled $84 million to 2,000 organizations. In our two largest discretionary programs – funding 140 …
