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¡Milwaukee Evaluation! Week: Lessons in Culturally Responsive Evaluation from the Executive Board by Nicole Robinson, Emily Connors, Kate Westaby, Tiffine Cobb, Regina Lowery, and Elise Ahn

Hi! We are Nicole Robinson, Emily Connors, Kate Westaby, Tiffine Cobb, Regina Lowery, and Elise Ahn and we’re board members of ¡Milwaukee Evaluation! Inc., the Wisconsin statewide AEA affiliate. As an affiliate and professional development collaborative of Wisconsin-based evaluators, we have three goals: To promote the science of evaluation Provide networking and capacity building opportunities …

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SW TIG Week: Sharing Power in Culturally-Responsive Evaluation Practice by Rachel Vinciguerra

Hi all! My name is Rachel Vinciguerra and I am a master’s student of international development and social work at the University of Pittsburgh. This summer I worked on two program evaluations in Haiti: one a mid-point evaluation for a girls’ empowerment program, the other a preliminary design of M&E protocols for an emerging foster …

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THE WISCONSIN IDEA IN ACTION by Nicole Bowman

Koolamalsi njoos (Hello Colleagues/Friends).  I’m Nicole Bowman (Mohican/Lunaape) a culturally responsive (CR) and Indigenous Evaluator (CRIE) at the WI Center for Education Research (WEC and LEAD Center) and President/Evaluator at Bowman Performance Consulting, all located in Wisconsin. In 1905, the President of UW, Charles Van Hise, provided the foundation for what has become fundamental to …

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Trial and error in the process of creating culturally-responsive evaluation with Morgan J Curtis, Patrick Lemmon, and Strong Oak Lefebvre

Hi! We are Morgan J Curtis (independent consultant) and Strong Oak Lafebvre (executive director of Visioning BEAR Circle Intertribal Coalition).  Along with Patrick Lemmon (independent consultant), we have the good fortune of serving as the evaluation team for the Walking in Balance (WIB) initiative. WIB is an innovative approach to violence prevention that focuses on …

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MSI Fellowship Week: 2016 MSI Fellows on Multidisciplinary Collaborative Reflections on the AEA MSI Experience: Lessons Learned

We are the 2016 AEA Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Fellows: Cirecie West-Olatunji (counselor education-Xavier University of Louisiana), Jeiru Bai (social work-University of Nebraska at Omaha), Kate Cartwright (health administration-University of New Mexico), Smita Shukla Mehta (special education-University of North Texas), and Chandra Story (public health-Oklahoma State University). It seems that it was only a few …

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GEDI Week: Monique Liston, Leah Peoples and Ibukun Owoputi on Evaluating Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Organizations

We are alumna of the AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program’s 13th cohort. Today’s hot tips are reflections on the importance of increasing an organization’s capacity to conduct equitable evaluations across all the stages of an evaluation. Here, we will share three tips that we learned while working at our GEDI sites. Hot Tip …

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GEDI Week: Kenneth Pass on Cultural Responsiveness and Community Engagement in Health, Evaluation, and Philanthropy

Hello, my name is Kenneth Pass. I am a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University and a recent Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program alumnus. During my GEDI internship at Growth Capital Network in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I engaged in various health, evaluation, and philanthropic projects with state and local community …

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GEDI Week: Drs. Ashaki M. Jackson and Stewart Donaldson on Culture Matters: GEDI Week on AEA365

Greetings from Los Angeles! We are Drs. Ashaki M. Jackson and Stewart Donaldson – the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program leadership team. This week, we share with you reflections from our most recent alumni, fondly called District 13 in honor of our 13th cohort. During last year’s annual conference, GEDI scholars were charged with …

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Labor Day Week: Melvin Hall on Honoring Karen Kirtkhart

This is part of a two-week series honoring our living evaluation pioneers in conjunction with Labor Day in the USA (September 5). Greetings, I am Melvin Hall, a current AEA Board Member and program evaluation specialist for over forty years. I have had many excellent mentors throughout my career including Tom Hastings, Bob Stake, Terry Denny, and …

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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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