culturally responsive evaluation

We are Dr. Tracy Hilliard, a Senior Consultant at MPHI and Dr. Michael Arnold, a Director at Informing Change. As African American evaluators, we are keenly aware of the historical uses of evaluation as a means of control, oppression, and exclusion. But in our culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE) practice, we walk a fine …

Expanding the Bench™ Week: Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation: African American Practitioners’ Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges in our Sector by Tracy Hilliard & Michael Arnold Read More »

Hello! We are Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo and Norma Martínez-Rubin, members of Expanding the Bench’s™ Advancing Culturally-responsive and Equitable (ACE) Evaluation Network. As evaluators, having a culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE) orientation is analogous to creating engagement opportunities for community members once unwilling to seek, and participate in, conversations leading to decisions that will impact them. …

Expanding the Bench™ Initiative Week: Culturally Responsive Evaluation Practice beyond “Hello” by Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo & Norma Martínez-Rubin Read More »

Greetings! We are Donna Mertens (mentor) and Tamarah Moss (protégé) with the Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) Program, focused on culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE), and led by Change Matrix as part of the Expanding the Bench™ (ETB) initiative. ETB is based on the assumption that evaluators from diverse and underrepresented communities …

Expanding the Bench™ Week: A Mentor and Protégé Model: Strengthening Transformative Culturally Responsive Evaluation through Forming a Mutually Beneficial Relationship by Donna Mertens & Tamarah Moss Read More »

Hi! Karla Mendez and Alina Taniuchi here. We’re Change Specialists at Change Matrix and Expanding the Bench™ (ETB) team members. ETB is an initiative based on the fundamental belief that increasing diversity in the field of evaluation improves our knowledge base and makes for better science and social innovation. On behalf of the ETB Family, …

Expanding the Bench™ Week: Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation: What is it and Why is it Important? by Karla Mendez & Alina Taniuchi Read More »