Koolamalsi/Hello! We are Dylan Felt (she/they) and Waapalaneexkweew AKA Dr. Nicky Bowman (Mohican/Lunaape; she/her), here to talk about 2SLGBTQ+ and Indigenous solidarity, love, and family.  In both our Indigenous and transgender communities, storytelling occupies a sacred space. We want to embrace that space and share with you the story of our research and evaluation partnership, …

LGBT+ TIG Week: Good Relations, Chosen Family: Solidarity Building for Indigenous & 2SLGBTQ+ Research and Evaluation by Dylan Felt and Waapalaneexkweew AKA Nicky Bowman Read More »

My name is Cody Ingle, and I am a Queer evaluator in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I work for a nonprofit called Lost&Found that works in suicide prevention and postvention. I identify as a cisgender, gay male that uses he/him pronouns. I am new to the evaluation profession and have been an AEA member for …

LGBT+ TIG Week: Counting Matters—LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit Representation in Rural Areas by Cody Ingle Read More »

Hello! We are Esrea Perez-Bill (she/her/they/them) with the EDIT Program at Northwestern University and Michael Petillo (he/him/they/them) with CES Partnership, LLC. We are emerging evaluators and creative researchers inviting you to coalition in radical solidarity with us against the othering/erasure of LGBTQ2S+ people (title invoking Gil Scott-Heron).      Learn about land acknowledgement and the Indigenous lands …

LGBT+ TIG Week: The Revolution Will Not Be Surveyed: Resisting Erasure and Othering of LGBTQ2S+ Community by Esrea Perez-Bill and Michael Petillo Read More »

Greetings! My name is Lauren Dixon (they/them) with Centerstone’s Research Institute. As a queer in the Southern United States, I am developing my evaluative practice in a juxtaposition of old and new. My unsolicited advice to fellow emerging evaluators is to go beyond conventions of what we are told; to reimagine what this role can …

LGBT+ TIG Week: A Roadmap to Equitable Decision Making by Lauren Dixon  Read More »

Hi. We’re Alex Bauer, Dylan Felt, Amy Lippincott, Esrea Perez-Bill, Michael Petillo, JulieAnn Sickell, and Shepherd Tsosie. Throughout 2021-2022, a group of 7 LGBTQ+ evaluators worked together to craft an eStudy for AEA focused on philosophical, ethical, and methodological considerations in LGBTQ+ Evaluation practice. The eStudy is available from AEA, but today, we wanted to share …

LGBT+ TIG Week: Building a Liberatory Praxis Together: an eStudy by Alex Bauer, Dylan Felt, Amy Lippincott, Esrea Perez-Bill, Michael Petillo, JulieAnn Sickell, and Shepherd Tsosie Read More »