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! We are Matt Feldmann and Sam Robison, and we are here to provide you with some context for what it is like to lead an evaluation practice and/or a university based research center that serves higher education clients. Matt owns and operates Goshen Consulting, a small independent consulting firm in Edwardsville, Illinois. Sam is an Associate Professor of Research in the Social Research and Evaluation Center at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana—note that I am not the director of our center, though I work closely with her and hope to have something useful to provide to this conversation!
Greetings! We, Sabrina Nwonye and Daniel Ticehurst, are old friends who worked together on a Policy Development Facility in Nigeria from 2015 to 2020. Our mission was clear: to create a space where those at the frontline of the facility’s work could share their stories, learn from one another, and ignite actionable change through a unique internal evaluation method. This endeavor led us to work closely with a dedicated team of Nigerian Embedded Advisors (EAs) who operated within the challenging landscape of federal-level government institutions, one subject to many political jinks and sways.
We are Agata Slota, Cassandra Ake, and Lucinda Jones with the USAID-funded Data for Impact (D4I) project. D4I supports countries to generate and use high-quality data to improve their programs, policies, and health outcomes. Our activity with D4I focuses on identifying behavioral interventions to increase the use of evaluation findings. Here are 10 evidence-based approaches your organization can try.
We are Omar Brown, MBA and Quisha Brown, MSA,MPA, consultants and co-founders of Humanistic Care, LLC, an organization offering culturally responsive solutions to tough challenges faced by organizations. We’re also the creators of an inclusive evaluation framework called the Progressive Outcomes Scale Logic Model (POSLM). This blog post discusses how strategies used in approaches such as the POSLM can help “bulletproof” DEI Evaluation Plans in hopes of shielding organizations from discrimination allegations and lawsuits.
Hi, I’m Kim Norris, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director for American Institutes for Research (AIR)’s International Development Division. Part of my role is to lead a MEL practice. As part of our initial strategy, our practice team determined to focus on localizing our work. For us this means we seek out ways to increase local partnering and leadership in and around MEL efforts – from business development to MEL direction and execution. This involves local team leadership, capacity strengthening and engagement on local terms.
My name is Omari Jackson, Ph.D. I am an Assistant Professor of Urban Educational Leadership at Morgan State University and a member of the 2019 cohort of the Minority Serving Institutions initiative of the American Evaluation Association.
I am Chad Kee, CEO and Founder of WhitworthKee Consulting and Chair of the Assessment in Higher Education TIG. I started WhitworthKee Consulting because of my personal experiences as a Black man attending a predominantly white institution. While attending the institution, I experienced academic, personal, and financial challenges. I was unaware at the time that I was navigating hidden and overt forms of exclusion, discrimination, invisibility, and marginalization as I worked intently to achieve the goal of graduating with a bachelor’s degree and making my family proud as a first-generation college student.
Hello! I am Candace Carter, PhD an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Mississippi Valley State University. I had the unique opportunity to serve as a fellow in the 2019 cohort of the American Evaluation Association Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Faculty Initiative. I teach methods of social work research, needs assessment and program evaluation in the graduate social work program. Throughout the fellowship, my research and presentation efforts have centered around capacity building and culturally responsive evaluation within the social work profession, more specifically on the academic program level.
Hello. My name is Fanni Farago (she/her) and I am serving as the 2021-2022 Program Chair for the Assessment in Higher Education TIG. Additionally, I am a new & emerging evaluator and a Sociology Doctoral Student at George Mason University. Currently, I work as a Research Assistant at Mason and investigate the impacts of inequality in higher ed for historically underrepresented students.
