Curator’s note: This week’s AEA365 posts contain Hawaiian language words that use certain diacritical markings. We make our best efforts to include these markings to be as culturally and grammatically accurate as possible, however, these markings often display as question marks or boxes, and may display differently on different browsers and devices. For best readability …
CREA-HI Week: Introduction to CREA-Hawai‘i by Dawn Mahi Read More »
Hello, my name is Lenka Berkowitz (she/her) and I’m an internal evaluator for Episcopal Community Services, a nonprofit organization that aims at challenging and reducing intergenerational poverty in the Philadelphia area. I met Libby Smith (she/they) through a book club exploring anti-racist works and her breathwork practice. Libby created a community called Being Human At …
Hello! I am Dr. Divya Bheda, you can find more about me here, and I am a feminist and an evaluator—i.e., a feminist evaluator. Over the last decade of being one, I often revisit what being a feminist evaluator means to me. Today, I thought I would share my current perspective with you. I am …
Greetings! I am mixed-race black queer woman academic-activist Dr. Crystallee Crain (she/her/hers). I have served as a Lecturer at California State University – East Bay in the Department of Political Science and the Founder & Principal Consultant with Prevention at the Intersections. One of the most vital lessons I hold in my work is that …
Aloha, I am Kathy Tibbetts. I have spent my adult life in Hawai‘i where I have been blessed with opportunities by Native Hawaiian serving organizations and the community to work alongside them and serve them for the last 40 years. A much wiser friend recently shared her view that Indigenizing is present in places where …
Namaste! I’m Rakesh Mohan, Director of the Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE). My office is an independent, nonpartisan agency of the Idaho Legislature. OPE’s mission is to promote confidence and accountability in state government. For people to have confidence in government, they need to trust their government officials. Unfortunately, that trust is a scarcity these …
RT&C Week: Building Trust, an Essential Activity for Evaluators by Rakesh Mohan Read More »
Hello! We are Tiffany Smith (@tiffany7001), Aileen Reid, and John LaVelle, the leadership team for the Teaching of Evaluation TIG (ToE TIG). The team is overjoyed: There were so many evaluation educators eager to share their ideas and insights about good teaching of evaluation we’re back for a second week, loaded with more tips, tricks, …
I’m Beverly Parsons, one of the editors and authors of Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future. The development of this book brought me to a deeper understanding of environmental sustainability and equity. When Matt Keene, Lovely Dhillon and I (co-editors and co-authors of several chapters) wrestled with a definition for environmental sustainability, Matt argued …
Visionary Evaluation Week: A Visionary Evaluative’s Dirt Meditation by Beverly Parsons Read More »
My name is James Groh, I’m an epidemiologist at the Marion County Public Health Department in Indianapolis where I’m evaluating our Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program which addresses racial inequities in chronic disease. As an evaluator, it is imperative to not only understand why social justice relates to my work but …
How do I Include Social Justice in My Work? by James Groh Read More »
I’m Nora Murphy Johnson, co-curator of this week’s posts. I’m honored to be highlighting Rodney Hopson who received the Robert Ingle Service Award in 2010 for his leadership on diversity issues and for his role in developing the AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship program (GEDI). Two of his former students to share what his service …
Labor Day Week: Rodney Hopson: Teacher, Mentor, Learner by Nora Murphy Johnson Read More »
