cultural competence

GEDI Week: Thana-Ashley Charles and Jamie Vickery on Learning and Applying Cultural Competence Within an Evaluation Team

Throughout the course of our GEDI experience, we have been immersed in cultural competence and culturally responsive evaluation. We learned the fundamentals of cultural competence in seminars at Claremont Graduate University and explored the prevalence of culturally responsive evaluation topics at AEA’s annual meeting. The unique opportunity of being able to observe the work of …

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Labor Day Week: Lisa Aponte-Soto on Honoring Arthur E. Hernandez

This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). ¡Saludos! Greetings! I am Lisa Aponte-Soto, National Program Deputy Director of RWJF New Connections and Director at Equal Measure, AEA GEDI alumna, and LA RED TIG Chair. Why I chose to honor this evaluator: LA …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Art Hernandez on Cultural Responsiveness and Community Relationships

My name is Art Hernandez and I am a Professor and Dean at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. I participated in one of the very early yearlong experiences as an AEA MSI Fellow and have served as the Director for several cohorts most recently this past year. I serve and have served as evaluator and …

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MSI Fellowship Week: The Contribution of Community Psychology to Understanding Cultural Competence in Practice

Greetings. My name is Tiffeny Jimenez and I identify first as a Community Psychologist (CP). I am also an Assistant Professor of the Community Psychology Doctoral program at National Louis University in Chicago. As a CP, I inherently very quickly identify inequalities, injustices, and potential for collaboration where others may be more likely to see …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Elizabeth Williams on Is Cultural Competence Enough?

I am Elizabeth Williams, assistant professor in the Department of Public Health, Health Administration and Health Sciences at Tennessee State University. As a scholar/practitioner of color who teaches emerging public health leaders and works as a health equity researcher, I think a lot about cultural competence and what it means in research and practice. In …

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MSI Fellowship Week: José Muñoz on Seeing Cultural Competency as a Sociologist

Hello, I’m José Muñoz. I am an Assistant Professor in my fifth year in the Department of Sociology at California State University, San Bernardino where I regularly teach Sociological Theory, Qualitative Research, and Latino Health. I am part of the 2014-2015 MSI AEA Fellowship Program. From our AEA fellowship project I have learned that on the practical …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Julia Lechuga on Culturally Competent Evaluation: A Reflection from a Health Psychologist

Hello. My name is Julia Lechuga and I am honored to be part of the AEA 2015 Minority Serving Institution (MSI) fellowship program. This year’s cohort was tasked with inquiring the manner in which different academic fields conceptualize the practice of culturally competent evaluation. Deep thought regarding the meaning of this statement for the practice …

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MSI Fellowship Week: Tamarah Moss on An Integrative Approach for Culturally Competent Evaluation: Moving from Organizational Statements to Practice

Greetings from Washington, DC! My name is Tamarah Moss and I am an Assistant Professor with Howard University School of Social Work and an AEA MSI Fellow with experience in program monitoring and evaluation, as well as teaching graduate practice evaluation courses. When I started to work on this AEA365 blog entry, my thought process began …

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MVE TIG Week: Sarah Baughman on Cultural Competence with Military Service Members

My name is Sarah Baughman and I am the National Project leader for the Military Families Learning Network (MFLN). The MFLN connects the resources of Land Grant Universities and Cooperative Extension with military audiences. Working across institutional cultural contexts has been one of our challenges. Our academic institutions have very different cultures than the military …

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MESI Week: Ravan Charles on Internalizing Cultural Competency

I am Ravan Charles, an evaluation newbie from Omaha, Nebraska. I’m writing about how my personal experience at the 2015 Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) Spring Training will influence the way I do evaluation for the rest of my life. I have to admit, I was skeptical when I saw the conference theme – ‘Social …

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