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FIE TIG Week: Donna M. Mertens on Evaluation’s Contribution to Solving Wicked Problems

2 Comments / Uncategorized / March 3, 2023

My name is Donna M. Mertens and I am an independent consultant based in Washington DC; my work is both domestic and international. I had the honor of being the keynote speaker at the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) in March 2015. The MESI theme was Social Justice amidst Standards and Accountability: The Challenge for Evaluation. The concept of social justice in the context of evaluation implies that evaluators can play a role in addressing those wicked problems that persist in society, such as violence, lack of access to quality education for all, poverty, substance abuse, and environmental pollution.

Best of AEA365: Dominica McBride on Living with the People

1 Comment / Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / August 25, 2021

Hi again, I’m Dominica McBride, Founder and CEO of Become: Center for Community Engagement and Social Change. A few weeks ago, I wrote a tip on the importance of cultural competence. I wrote on the perpetual sociopolitical dilemmas we face as a society. Today, I’m providing a way to contribute to alleviating these issues. Start …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Engaging Social Work Students in Program Evaluation by Lorraine Graves

2 Comments / Social Work / March 15, 2020

Hi, I’m Lorraine Graves, an Assistant Professor from North Carolina Central University in the Department of Social Work and a 2019 Minority Serving Institute fellow with American Evaluation Association.  I teach program evaluation to Master of Social Work (MSW) students. I find program evaluation is a course that increases students’ anxiety because of its connection …

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FIE TIG Week: Cultural competence and power issues in evaluations, reflections from a gender transformative perspective by Silvia Salinas-Mulder and Fabiola Amariles-Erazo

Leave a Comment / Feminist Issues in Evaluation / March 3, 2018

Hi, we are Silvia Salinas-Mulder and Fabiola Amariles-Erazo, independent evaluators from Bolivia and Colombia. In recent years we have dedicated our research and capacity development efforts to advance knowledge about cultural competence in evaluation with a feminist approach, mainly in Latin American & Caribbean (LAC), a region with high inequalities and a strong colonialist and …

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GEDI Week: Cultural Considerations in Data Visualization: A GEDI Take by Mike Osiemo Mwirigi and Glen Acheampong

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / December 18, 2017

Hello from two scholars and two coasts! We are Mike Osiemo Mwirigi, MS, and Glen Acheampong, MPP. During our GEDI program year, we learned that evaluators and stakeholders are increasing their use of visuals to present data. Data visualization pioneers in evaluation have pointed out that a good visual can make evaluation results more user …

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IPE TIG Week: On the Slipperiness of Culture by Vidhya Shanker

Leave a Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation / November 19, 2017

Greetings! I’m Vidhya Shanker, a doctoral candidate in Evaluation Studies at the University of Minnesota. Writing during Thanksgiving week, from the birthplace of the American Indian Movement—surrounded by the largest urban Native and largest refugee communities–as the daughter of immigrants from a colonized country, I offer this exploration of culture to everyone committed to struggles …

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LGBTQ Week: Increasing your LGBTQ Cultural Competence by Libby Smith

Leave a Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / October 14, 2017

Hi, my name is Libby Smith, I am an evaluator at the Applied Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Stout and program co-chair for the LGBT Issues TIG. When I first took on the task of introducing LGBTQ Week on this blog, I considered that the most common conversations I have about cultural competence in …

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Memorial Week in Evaluation: “Third World” No More. Welcome Global South. by Tessie Catsambas

4 Comments / Uncategorized / May 28, 2017

My name is Tessie Catsambas and I am Chair of the AEA International Working Group. My contribution to this Memorial Day series is to call attention to the demise of the designation “Third World.” The term Third World arose in the Cold War to refer to the group of developing nations mostly in Asia and …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Cirecie West-Olatunji and Chandra Story On Intellectual Colonization and Exporting Pejorative Attitudes in Program Evaluation: 3 Hot Tips

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 28, 2016

We are both AEA Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Fellows this year with specialization in two related disciplines. The first author, Cirecie West-Olatunji is a counselor educator at Xavier University of Louisiana and Chandra Story is a faculty member in Health Education and Promotion/Pubic Health at Oklahoma State University. As we conclude our year long fellowship …

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