“Men need feminist thinking.” bell hooks* Almost 20 years ago I heard bell hooks for the first time and her recent death just two months ago reminded me how much her words simultaneously shook and hugged me (even in an auditorium her words never felt like a lecture). I am Tom Kelly, recently independent consultant …
White Privilege Awareness Week: Relationship With My Own Maleness by Tom Kelly Read More »
Hello fellow humans. My name is Anna Martin (she/her). I am an Evaluator, Social Worker, Facilitator, Complexity Coach, curious mischief maker and co-founder of Picture Impact. And I’m Betsy Block (she/her). I’m a Systems Coach & Capacity Builder who works with emerging management teams. What would it feel like to have a relationship with time …
The global peacebuilders are coming and I, Michelle Garred, am one of them. We are American peace practitioners and evaluators who built our careers in other countries. We are now re-focusing on the USA in response to the laying bare of the longstanding lack of peace in our own country. We have good intentions, useful …
We are Maddy Frey & Libby Smith. In over 2.5 years of friendship, we’ve discovered that we are both passionate about conflict as a generative practice. Strong relationships are critical to good evaluation, and conflict is a natural part of that process. Today, we are writing to encourage the AEA365 community to embrace conflict as …
White Privilege Awareness Week: Showing Up for Conflict by Maddy Frey and Libby Smith Read More »
Hi, I’m Trilby Smith (she/her). I was born here, although I have lived in many other places in the interim before moving back to Vancouver 11 years ago. My ancestors are Anglican “smiths” – blacksmiths from the United Kingdom (on my father’s side) and Ashkenazi Jews from the Ukraine (on my mother’s side). Both sides …
Hello, readers! Liz DiLuzio here, Lead Curator of AEA365. We didn’t have the heart to leave Pi Day unacknowledged, so here’s a special second release of the day. It comes from our own Ann K. Emery, here to talk to us about pie charts and their alternatives. It’s March 14th, which means… Happy Pi(e) Day! …
Happy Pi(e) Day! Let’s Revamp a Page of Pie Charts by Ann K. Emery Read More »
Hello! I’m Matteah Spencer Reppart and I live and serve at the intersection of the multitude of our humanity and the complexity of our systems. I love supporting people towards systems transformation. In the past few months (and years), I have been on a journey of recognizing how some of the ways in which I work, …
White Privilege Awareness Week: Relationship with Unlearning by Matteah Spencer Reppart Read More »
I’m Rita Sinorita Fierro of Fierro Consulting, LLC. We specialize in the bridge between organizational culture and results. In other words, we support organizations to cultivate the internal culture that can generate their external results. As such, a great part of my organizational development and evaluation practice is being able to: envisioning something new and …
Hello, I’m Dr. Rick Hoefer, Professor of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington, focusing on management and policy topics in my teaching and writing. I’ve been thinking about how the Pandemic has touched the evaluation of evidence-based programs (EBPs). Questions Regarding Evaluating Evidence-based Programs EBPs are designed to be implemented with certain resources, …
Social Work TIG Week: How Has COVID Infected EBP Evaluations? by Rick Hoefer Read More »
We are Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo (principal of TERSHA LLC, a Ghanaian-American who embraces her intersectional facets of being a wife and mom in her work, and is a community scholar-activist who found her path from engineering into public health. Her work is rooted in culturally responsive and equitable tools for co-designing research and evaluation initiatives with …
