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Environmental Program Evaluation TIG Week: Reflections on the Intersection of Equity, Environment, and Evaluation by Evan Kuras and Rupu Gupta

Hello! We are Evan Kuras (he/him), Evaluation Consultant with MXM Research Group, and Rupu Gupta (she/her), Owner of Rupu Gupta Consulting and Program Chair of AEA’s Environmental Program Evaluation (EPE) TIG. We’re celebrating Earth Week by reflecting on what it takes for everyone to steward a healthy planet through evaluation! Equity is foundational for evaluators …

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Data Ethics Week: Don’t Forget to Take a Break! by Johnny Du

Greetings and welcome to the final post of Data Ethics Week! I’m Johnny Du (he/him), a Writer/Editor with Informing Change. My colleagues and our collaborators have told you all week about the importance of considering data ethics when conducting research and evaluation, having developed a Guidebook and Toolkit to help with decision-making. Having strong data …

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Data Ethics Week: Building Your Team’s Ethical Thinking Muscles: Professional Development in Ethics by Anjie Rosga

Hi – once again it’s Anjie Rosga, from Informing Change. This time, I’m here with a reflection on professional development in ethical thinking for Data Ethics Week. If my and Caitlin Stanton’s first post focused on the origins of data ethics and contemporary interpretations of how to do research and evaluation in the social sector ethically …

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Data Ethics Week: It’s Not Just Data by Billie Joe Rogers

My name is Billie Joe Rogers and I’m an Anishinaabe member of Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Ontario, Canada, and co-owner of Reciprocal Consulting Inc based out of Vancouver, BC. I offered my experiences and views to Informing Change during the creation of the Data Ethics Guidebook and Toolkit, and was invited to further share my …

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Data Ethics Week: Thinking Ethically and Thinking Equitably by Caitlin Stanton

Hello! Welcome to day 4 of Data Ethics Week at the AEA365. My name is Caitlin Stanton, a Senior Associate at Informing Change, and I am one of the authors of the Data Ethics Guidebook and Toolkit we produced and made available to our field. I started out studying theatre, and, to this day, I …

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Data Ethics Week: Collecting Demographic Data with Care by Inti Chomsky

Hi! I’m Inti Chomsky, an Associate at Informing Change, a strategic learning and evaluation firm based in Berkeley, California. Our team is frequently tasked with drafting surveys and analyzing that data for our clients. Often, our surveys include a set of demographic information questions as part of our standard practice; we typically disaggregate the data …

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Data Ethics Week: Our Data Ethics Journey by Andrea Lozano

Greetings AEA community, I am Andrea Lozano, Evaluation and Learning Officer at The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. At the Packard Foundation we work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world. In this blog, I would like to share how we are rethinking our approach …

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Data Ethics Week: What is Data Ethics? by Anjie Rosga and Caitlin Stanton

Hi AEA365 readers! We are Anjie Rosga and Caitlin Stanton with Informing Change, a strategic learning and evaluation firm based in Berkeley, California. We are excited to kick off Data Ethics Week with a simple question: what is data ethics? In a nutshell, according to the Open Data Institute, it’s “a branch of ethics that …

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OL-ECB TIG Week: Build Community to Build Capacity by Jan Fields

Hi! I’m Jan Fields, program evaluator for the Michigan Overdose Data to Action (MODA) Program in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). My work focuses on evaluating prevention and harm reduction activities funded by the CDC’s Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) cooperative agreement. In addition to evaluating MODA activities, I am also the coordinator of a peer-to-peer (P2P) learning group consisting of OD2A-funded evaluators located in 66 jurisdictions throughout the country.

OL-ECB TIG Week: Meeting To Meet: Why We’re Terrible at Learning in Meetings by Elizabeth McGee

My name is Elizabeth McGee (she/her), founder of LEAP Consulting, and the soon-to-be Center for Radical Evaluation and Applied Research. Meetings. There are too many. They’re too long. They’re not productive. We don’t learn. And yet despite all of this, we don’t give them much attention even though they fill hours of our day. We …

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