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GEDI Week: Nnenia Campell and Saúl Maldonado on Amplifying Definitions of Diversity in the Discourse and Practice of Culturally Responsive Evaluation, Part 2

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 28, 2013 November 30, 2013

Hello and Hola. We’re Nnenia Campbell, research assistant at the Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder and Saúl Maldonado, research assistant at the ELLISA Project, University of California, Santa Cruz. We are recent graduates of the AEA Graduate Diversity Education Internship (GEDI). One of the GEDI goals is to: “Deepen the evaluation profession’s capacity …

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GEDI Week: Nnenia Campell and Saúl Maldonado on Amplifying Definitions of Diversity in the Discourse and Practice of Culturally Responsive Evaluation, Part 1

2 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 27, 2013 November 30, 2013

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GEDI Week: Faheemah Mustafaa on Pursuing Racial Equity in Evaluation Practice

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 26, 2013 January 14, 2015

My name is Faheemah Mustafaa, and I am a doctoral candidate in Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan, and alumna of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI). During my internship at Public Policy Associates, Inc., we discussed how racial equity could be moved from “vision to reality” in evaluation practice. Lessons Learned Examine …

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GEDI Week: D. Pearl Barnett on Cultural Responsiveness in a Representative Bureaucracy

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 25, 2013 November 30, 2013

Greetings, I am D. Pearl Barnett, MPA, graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, and recent graduate of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program. During my work at the Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City, we completed an evaluation of the agency’s Strategic Plan. Here, I present a few salient lessons about cultural responsiveness …

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GEDI Week: Ashaki Jackson, Stewart Donaldson, and John LaVelle on the GEDI Program

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 24, 2013 November 30, 2013

Hi, we are Ashaki Jackson, Stewart Donaldson, and John LaVelle, and we are the leaders and coordinators of the American Evaluation Association’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship program (GEDI). November 24-29 is the GEDI sponsored week, and we thought it best to share some important resources about the GEDI program itself (www.eval.org/GEDI). Hot Tip: Program Overview. …

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Dan McDonnell on Twitter Etiquette and Data Archiving

6 Comments / Uncategorized / November 23, 2013 December 2, 2013

My name is Dan McDonnell, and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association.

If you couldn’t already tell, I am a huge fan of Twitter, both personally and professionally. Whether I’m analyzing the latest set of #eval tweets, seeking new craft beer releases, or making connections with new people who share my similar interests, I am logged into Twitter 365 days a year. I am constantly learning new, interesting ways to get great data out of Twitter, and to better engage with my fellow Tweeters. In this post, I’ll outline five short tips you can add to your bag of Twitter tricks, and help you on your road towards becoming a Twitter Power User.

ICT4D for MEAL Week: Suzanne Andrews and Shaun Ferris on Farmbook

Leave a Comment / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 22, 2013 November 16, 2013

Greetings from Catholic Relief Services (CRS)! We, Suzanne Andrews and Shaun Ferris, from the Baltimore-based Agriculture and Livelihoods Program, presented at the American Evaluation Association’s Annual Conference in Washington DC on a Farmbook suite of on/off line tools to help us to better build capacity, gather data and develop business plans with smallholder farmers. Lesson …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Marianna Hensley on Beware the Lure of Real-time Data!

Leave a Comment / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 21, 2013 November 16, 2013

Hi, my name is Marianna Hensley, Program Quality Manger for Health with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in India. I currently support the Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths (ReMiND) project that CRS implements in partnership with Dimagi, Inc. and Vatsalya. The ReMiND project works with government community health workers (CHW) to improve the frequency and quality …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Shenkut Ayele on Early Warning and Response System Innovation through SMS in Ethiopia

2 Comments / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 20, 2013 November 16, 2013

Hi, my name is Shenkut Ayele, Early Warning Assessment and Response Manager with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) for the Joint Emergency Operation (JEOP) in Ethiopia. JEOP is a USAID-funded emergency food assistance program that over two years is providing food aid to almost 1 million people. The program operates across Ethiopia and is a partnership …

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ICT4D for MEAL Week: Or Dashevsky on Sierra Leone Malaria Indicator Survey

Leave a Comment / Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / November 19, 2013 November 19, 2013

Hi, my name is Or Dashevsky, Chief Solution Architect for Catholic Relief Services based in Baltimore. I’m responsible for providing technical leadership to a team who develop CRS’ enterprise architecture. Malaria is endemic in Sierra Leone, with stable and perennial transmission in all parts of the country. As such, the entire population is at risk …

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