Anushiik (thank you) Kiisheelumukweengw (Creator) eelu miiluyeengw (for giving us) Kikhay waak Wuliit Eelaangoomaatiit (our Leader/Teacher and Good Relative), Dr. Stafford Hood (African American/Mississippi Choctaw). Wulahkameew wulahlokayaan waak wulakkuniimeew (it is a beautiful day to do good work and to say good things).
Hello! I’m Pamela Frazier-Anderson, a culturally responsive program evaluator and the founder of Kandaki Tech, a responsive website design company. In Reflections on the Journey of One Aspiring Culturally Responsive Evaluator-Thus Far, Dr. Stafford Hood wrote, “I have gotten beyond trying to explain how I got here. I do not think I have been in control of this ride; a lot of it does not make sense. Just a quick, subtle change of destiny and someone else would have been sitting here-not me.”
I’m Vincent E Thomas, a dancer/choreographer/professor. I move the body as a way to unearth layers of self for deeper understanding of our purpose. This is a throughline that permeates all aspects of my teaching and creative work. I’m Geri Lynn Peak. I practice evaluation through the lens of spiritual demography creating more durable and …
Hi! We are Angela Fingard and Daima Machang’u. Angela serves as the Managing Director of People & Programs for TimeSlips Creative Storytelling, Inc specializing in building meaningful engagement with older adults through creative communication. Daima is a licensed physician and Fulbright Scholar at Georgia State University pursuing a Masters of Public Health. He is interested in …
Hi. I’m Justin Laing, and I’m the principal consultant of Hillombo LLC, a company working to deepen praxis in the 501-c(3) sector through Black Studies informed experimentation in evaluation, organizational development and planning. In this post I offer a few ideas for identifying ways that institutions in the 501-c3 arts system reproduce the social relations …
Hi, I’m Rachael Jenison (MFA/MPA) and am currently serving as an AmeriCorps Member at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, a mayoral agency that oversees the distribution of city funds to arts and culture organizations. My focus there is on evaluation of equity-based reforms to the grant-making process. Prior to serving at DCLA, …
Hi! I’m Madeleine Pope (they/them), research associate and project manager at HG&Co, a visitor-centered planning, strategy, & evaluation firm which supports museums and cultural organizations. Having just attended my first AEA conference as a new museum evaluator, I noticed that there are some differences between my niche world of work and organizational or teaching evaluation. I’ve …
We are Jennica Nichols and Maya Lefkowich – arts-based evaluators from Vancouver, Canada. Coming into the New Year, we’ve been reflecting on lessons learned over the last year and wanted to share some with you (and welcome your thoughts too). After years of dreaming about an arts-based evaluation company, we finally started one. We launched …
Marcel W. Foster, MPH, here, and I use they/them pronouns. Before jumping into today’s blog (merely a preview of this week’s contributions) – I invite you to take one simple inhale and one simple exhale. via GIPHY It is of course an honor and GEEK TRIUMPH to curate the 2023 Arts, Culture, & Museum (ACM) …
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Hello! We are Alex, John, and Jenica, data science and evaluation specialists with Deloitte Consulting, LLP. We review large sets of qualitative data on a regular basis, and to save time and pull insights we may miss during a manual review, we turn to automation. With recent advances and increased access to automated text analytics …
