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MSI Fellowship Week: Elizabeth Williams on Is Cultural Competence Enough?

3 Comments / Uncategorized / February 1, 2016

I am Elizabeth Williams, assistant professor in the Department of Public Health, Health Administration and Health Sciences at Tennessee State University. As a scholar/practitioner of color who teaches emerging public health leaders and works as a health equity researcher, I think a lot about cultural competence and what it means in research and practice. In …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Tamarah Moss on An Integrative Approach for Culturally Competent Evaluation: Moving from Organizational Statements to Practice

2 Comments / Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Social Work / February 19, 2016

Greetings from Washington, DC! My name is Tamarah Moss and I am an Assistant Professor with Howard University School of Social Work and an AEA MSI Fellow with experience in program monitoring and evaluation, as well as teaching graduate practice evaluation courses. When I started to work on this AEA365 blog entry, my thought process began …

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MESI Week: Ravan Charles on Internalizing Cultural Competency

1 Comment / Uncategorized / April 18, 2015

I am Ravan Charles, an evaluation newbie from Omaha, Nebraska. I’m writing about how my personal experience at the 2015 Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) Spring Training will influence the way I do evaluation for the rest of my life. I have to admit, I was skeptical when I saw the conference theme – ‘Social …

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Jyoti Venketraman on Collaborating and Evaluating in Diverse Communities (One Practitioner’s Lessons Learnt)

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / February 10, 2015

Hi everyone, I am Jyoti Venketraman, Director Special Initiatives at the New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault.  I was hesitant to initially blog as I don’t consider myself an expert. But my awesome colleague Liz Zadnik , aea365 Outreach Coordinator and a recent blog post by Shiela B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator made me realize …

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Roxann Lamar on Culturally Responsive Terminology

3 Comments / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / December 21, 2014

My name is Roxann Lamar and I work in research and evaluation at the Center for Human Development, University of Alaska Anchorage. Our local AEA chapter, the Alaska Evaluation Network (AKEN) hosted a discussion on cultural competence, particularly relevant toNative cultures. About 19% of Alaskans have all or partial Native heritage. The AEA’s statement on …

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#Eval14 Grad Students Reflections Week: Danielle Cummings on GEDI Intern Reflections on the AEA Annual Conference

1 Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / December 13, 2014

Hello! My name is Danielle Cummings. I am a member of the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program and a graduate student at NYU Wagner School of Public Service studying public policy analysis. Attending AEA’s annual conference was inspiring and edifying. As a graduate student learning analytical methods and research design, the conference was …

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Cultural Competence Week: Cindy Crusto on Hindsight is 20/20 – Reflecting on Missed Opportunities, Missteps, and Successes in Attending to Culture and Context in Evaluation Practice

6 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / May 27, 2013

My name is Cindy Crusto, and I am an associate professor at Yale University School of Medicine and chair of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. Today, I summarize and reflect on the Hindsight is 20/20: Reflecting on Missed Opportunities, Missteps, and Successes in Attending to Culture and Context …

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SWB Week: Mark Griffin on Preparing to Work in a Developing Country

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / July 12, 2012

Greetings I am Mark Griffin. At the time of writing this article I am fortunate enough to be in the middle of a world trip. Key events of my trip: last week I was in Fiji chairing the Pacific Conference for Statistics and Information Systems, my third trip to Fiji, with a rapidly developing workshop …

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