Hello! This is AEA365 curator, Elizabeth Grim, writing to you during the week of Evaluation 2022: (Re)shaping Evaluation Together (#Eval22). As I think about reshaping and reimagining evaluation, I believe it is important to understand the history of the spaces and places we are working. Eval22 is being held in New Orleans, which has Indigenous, …
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Hello, we are Emily Costello, Julia Bleser, Tracy Wharton, Shakiera Causey, and Oscar Espinosa, and are the National Network of Public Health Institutes’ Research and Evaluation Team. For the last few years, we have been collaborating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to evaluate public health-focused programs addressing many of the challenges and …
Greetings, evaluation friends! Elizabeth Grim here. Founder of Elizabeth Grim Consulting and Curator of AEA365. It’s conference season! This week, some readers may be traveling to New Orleans to gather with our fellow evaluators at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference, while others might be in Boston for the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference. …
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Greetings, AEA365 readers. Elizabeth DiLuzio here, Lead Curator for the blog. If you’ve somehow missed the excitement, let me be the first to tell you: AEA’s first in-person conference since the pandemic began is kicking off tomorrow! The week opens with two and a half days of pre-conference workshops. Then, on Wednesday, the conference officially …
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Greetings! We are Danuta Dobosz, Talatha Kiazolu-Reeves, Jillian Klarman, Michael Petillo, and Tiffany Smith, alumni of American University’s Measurement and Evaluation Program. We are here with Professor Beverly Peters; and Assetou Barry and Marshall Bailly, who regularly serve as practicum supervisors for AU students. This article on Alumni Perspectives is one in a three-part series …
I’m Geri Peak, Chief Insight Facilitator at Two Gems Consulting Services, where I practice exploring spiritual demography: coherence between universal principles and evaluative practice. In the quest to free our world from the ravages of far west eurasian imperialism, the word trickery with decolonization continues. While increasingly popular, decolonization’s use veers from its true intent …
Greetings from Vidhya Shanker and Diana Siegel-Garcia, inviting you on behalf of the American Evaluation Association’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Working Group and The May 13 Group to co-create the first “People’s History of Evaluation” at Eval 22: (re)shaping evaluation together! Still just an idea a few short months ago, The Power of Perspective: Generations …
We are Evaluation Studies PhD students at the University of Minnesota studying in Dr. John LaVelle’s Advanced Evaluation Theory class, in which he emphasizes the importance of relationships for reflexive practice. Our narratives weave what critical reflexivity can be for non-Indigenous practitioners in reconciliation through participatory sense-making based on our shared experiences engaging in intercultural …
I am Rita Sinorita Fierro, Ph.D., CEO of Fierro Consulting, LLC, a firm that focuses on supporting trailblazing leaders to align internal practices and organizational culture with external results towards a humane world. Since I published Digging Up the Seeds of white Supremacy in May 2022, I get this question a lot: “Why should white …
Decolonization in Evaluation Week: Liberation is a Giggle! by Rita Sinorita Fierro Read More »
Greetings good people, we are Albertina Lopez, Jewlya Lynn, Geri Peak, Michael Petillo, Aisha Rios, Vidhya Shanker & Susan Wolfe, the team of voices behind AEA session #5365, Voices of Decolonizing Evaluation: Moving from Discussion to Action. Following on our blogs from last year, we are expanding the ongoing discourse on evaluation’s role in envisioning …
