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LAWG Week: Dominica McBride and Leah C. Neubauer on Chicago From All Sides

Hi, we are Dominica McBride and Leah C. Neubauer, members of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association and the Local Affiliate Working Group. This LAWG week includes posts designed to be real about our city, share local evaluator insights, and continue to build conference excitement! Lessons Learned: Chicago is an amazing city filled with rich history, beautiful …

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LAWG Week: Anthony Heard on growing as an evaluator with your local affiliate

My name is Anthony Heard I’m a clinical social worker at the UI Hospital and Health Sciences System here in Chicago, and Secretary of the AEA’s local affiliate: the Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA). Today, I hope to encourage you to check out both your local affiliate and ours. Though I co-chair a department QI Committee, …

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LAWG Week: Alicia Anderson on Bringing Out the Best in Others

Hello! My name is Alicia Anderson and I am a student at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in the Masters of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis Program. I am also a Leader Fellow with Become, Inc – a nonprofit team dedicated to community engagement, community involvement, and social justice. In the short time that …

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LAWG Week: Matt Feldmann on Illinois as the “Local Area”

Hello, I am Matt Feldmann, the principal researcher and owner of Goshen Education Consulting, Inc. and a member of the Local Area Working Group. My company focuses on educational evaluation and data support for clients in Illinois, which also happens to include Chicago. J While I live about 4.5 hours south of Chicago, I am …

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LAWG Week: Scott Tharp on Increasing Cultural Competence in Assessment

Hello fellow culturally-responsive evaluation lovers! My name is Scott Tharp and I am the Associate Director for the Center for Intercultural Programs at DePaul University. It’s a simple fact that we live in a multicultural world where multiple values and experiences are present. While some might think evaluation is inherently “neutral”, it never is. Social …

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LAWG Week: Leah Neubauer, Dominica McBride, and Anthony Heard on Getting Chicago-ready for Evaluation 2015

We are Leah Neubauer, Dominica McBride and Anthony Heard of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association. Welcome to the Local Arrangements Working Group (LAWG) week. We look forward to Evaluation 2015 in the Windy City. In the Exemplary Evaluation conference year, our opening Chicago week offers issues relevant to our evaluation practice, environment, and policy. Today’s post …

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LAWG Week: Mariana Enríquez on Reaching Minority Communities

Hello, my name is Mariana Enríquez and I am a Program Evaluation Consultant based in Denver, Colorado. My work focuses on the evaluation of education and public health programs across Colorado. Immigration has been in recent news because of the large number of unaccompanied children arriving in the country from Central America. Colorado, and especially …

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LAWG Week: Maggie Miller on Teaching Evaluation in the Denver Area

Hello, I am Maggie Miller, the principal of Maggie Miller Consulting. I conduct program evaluation for nonprofits in the Denver/Boulder area. Welcome to Colorado! We Coloradoans tend to be very friendly; when you meet us at Evaluation 2014, we will be very happy to share any information about Colorado that we can. Coloradoans also like …

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LAWG Week: Helen Holmquist-Johnson on Using Process Evaluation to Capture the Diversity of Colorado

Greetings from Colorado – Home of the Southern Rocky Mountains and the edge of the Great Plains. My name is Helen Holmquist-Johnson and I am the Assistant Director of the Social Work Research Center at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Colorado is not only geographically diverse, but incredibility diverse in terms of the …

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