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LGBT TIG Week: Terry L. Brown on Transgressing Gender

Leave a Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 18, 2013 February 18, 2013

My name is Terry L. Brown, and I am a doctoral candidate in the College of Education at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. Transgressing gender is the practice of blurring socio-constructed gender boundaries as a strategic response to heteronormative practice. Heteronormative, also referred to as gender normative, practice seeks efficiencies through standardizing and regulating …

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Robin Kelly on A Tip on Activating Your Cultural Intelligence

Hi, I am Robin Kelly; I work as an internal evaluator for the National Minority AIDS Council, which is a federally funded nongovernmental organization that provides capacity building assistance to community based organizations and health departments that have programs or interventions to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. I mention it because we work in communities of …

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Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo on Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility in Evaluation

5 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / May 2, 2012 April 3, 2012

I am Humberto Reynoso-Vallejo, Director for Program Evaluation with the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Using culturally appropriate approaches when conducting research and evaluation in multicultural settings, is widely accepted and essential. The cultural competence approach serves as the specific framework when conducting evaluations. This approach alone, …

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Sarah Gill on the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association Spring Social 2012

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Independent Consulting, Internal Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 4, 2012 March 9, 2012

I’m Sarah Gill, membership chair for the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association (AaEA). Recently AaEA hosted a spring social. The event was inspired by the recent AEA 365 posts making predictions for the future of evaluation. Maureen Wilce, AaEA’s chair for professional development, and I thought the posts would inspire great conversation among our fellow evaluators – …

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MN EA Week: Susan Keskinen on Applying Culturally Competent Practices

1 Comment / Uncategorized / March 12, 2012 February 23, 2012

My name is Susan Keskinen. I work for Ramsey County (Minnesota) Community Human Services as a Senior Program Evaluator. My evaluation projects are related to adult services and to employment related services provided to Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) participants, Minnesota’s version of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. I am also the …

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Susan Kistler on The Future of Evaluation: 5 Predictions (building on 10 others!)

10 Comments / Uncategorized / February 4, 2012 April 3, 2012

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and this week John Gargani reflected on what evaluation might look like in 10 years (go ahead, click away – it’s worth a read – but come back!). Lessons [to be] Learned looking into a hazy crystal ball for what evaluation might look like 10 years hence, I wanted …

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Kelly Robertson & Diane Rogers on Race or Racism? Value Implications & Practical Solutions

1 Comment / Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / January 15, 2012 January 15, 2012

I’m Kelly Robertson and I am a project manager at The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University and a student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation (IDPE). My co-presenter at AEA’s 2011 conference was fellow IDPE student and teacher, Diane Rogers. The title of our presentation was, “Race or Racism? Value Implications and Practical Solutions.” …

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Dianne Hofner Saphiere on Interculturally Competent Evaluation

1 Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / September 22, 2011 September 28, 2011

My name is Dianne Hofner Saphiere and I am Founder and Principal at Cultural Detective®. We are a team of international professionals who collaborate to produce practical tools that use a theoretically grounded, proven process for enhancing intercultural competence. At Evaluation 2011 I’ll be facilitating a session entitled “Interculturally Competent Evaluation,” so I appreciate this …

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LeKisha M. Harris and Chris St. Vil on the Role of Culturally Competent Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Graduate Student and New Evaluators / May 9, 2011 April 18, 2011

Hello! We are LeKisha M. Harris and Chris St. Vil, interns in AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program. GEDI interns are graduate students who, through a nine-month internship and participation in various workshops throughout the year, gain hands-on experience in evaluation. LeKisha is a 2nd year Master’s student at the University of Georgia School …

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Scribing: Vidhya Shanker on Discussions Regarding the AEA Cultural Competence Statement

4 Comments / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / April 14, 2011 April 4, 2011

This is Vidhya Shanker, a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota. I served as an Evaluation 2010 scribe for Think Tank Session 242, Cultural Competency in Evaluation: Discussion of the American Evaluation Association’s Public Statement on the Importance of Cultural Competence in Evaluation. Discussion was organized into small groups, each of which focused on …

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