Hi there! My name is Emily Bango and I’m an evaluator based in Washington, DC. I’m also the current Mentor Minutes Coordinator for Washington Evaluators (WE). Mentor Minutes is an initiative that aims to connect current WE members to experienced evaluation professionals in the WE community through short-term mentorship opportunities. The purpose of Mentor Minutes …
Hello, I’m Melissa Chiu, the 2019 Program Chair for Washington Evaluators (WE). This year, the Washington Evaluators Board set priorities focusing on two broad themes: evaluation as community and evaluation in the community. Also, we particularly wanted to highlight issues of diversity and social justice, all while getting evaluators out into the city and their …
Washington Evaluators Week: Programming for Community Engagement by Melissa Chiu Read More »
Hi, I’m Giovanni Dazzo, current President of Washington Evaluators and an evaluator at the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. This week, our local affiliate would like to hit pause on the research methods we typically share in these posts, in order to reflect and provide tips on how we can …
Hello, we are Shannon Williams, Research Manager at Rebuilding Together, Allison Schachter, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor at Pathfinder International, and Tyler Spenser, Founder and President of The Grassroot Project. Together, we are the three inaugural recipients of the Washington Evaluators New Professional Scholarship program established in 2017. The goal of this scholarship program is to …
Hello dear colleagues, We’re Alisher Nazirov and Tatiana Tretiakova, representatives of national evaluation communities of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and we would like to share our impressions from one of the most memorable exchange of experience and practices – a study tour to the Washington Evaluators. The tour was supported by the American Evaluation Association, while …
Hello! Our names are Jennifer Battis and Kathleen Ferreira, evaluators and researchers at C4 Innovations. Over the past 6 months, we had the opportunity to collaborate with Washington State University (WSU) to conduct an environmental scan of the State of Washington’s collegiate recovery programs. What is collegiate recovery and why is it important? Collegiate recovery …
This is Sarah Stachowiak, writing to you from the unceded lands of the Duwamish People, in present-day Seattle, Washington, in the United States. As of this writing, the United States government federally recognizes 574 tribes; the Duwamish tribe is not one of them. In the 1855 Point Elliott Treaty, the Duwamish ceded territory—but not sovereignty—to …
Hi, I’m Eric Einspruch, an AEA member since 1991, one of the founders of the Oregon Program Evaluators Network (OPEN), and a past President of OPEN. I am the Principal of ELE Consulting, LLC, which provides research and evaluation services that balance rigor and real-world constraints to generate meaningful and actionable results, and provides training …
Oregon Evaluators Week: Be Inspired at the AEA Annual Conference by Eric Einspruch Read More »
Greetings! I’m Kathryn Lowerre, communications co-chair at NM Evaluators (www.nmeval.org) and evaluator for the Drug Overdose Prevention Program at the NM Department of Health. Following the lead of fellow affiliates (like our neighbor, AZENet), we’re sponsoring a week of blogs around evaluation in NM. In 2019, NM Evaluators is building from our October 2018 annual …
NME Week: New Mexico (NM) Evaluators Week by Kathryn Lowerre Read More »
Hi, AEA365ers! I’m Evan Poncelet, REAL Evaluation Fellow at the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation in Halifax, Canada. Last year, as a young and emerging evaluator, I decided to seek out a mentor through the Canadian Evaluation Society’s mentoring initiative. Fast forward to the present day: I recently concluded my mentorship, which was a fantastic …
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