My name is Leah Christina Neubauer. I am the President of the Chicagoland Evaluation Association and the Program Manager and an Instructor in the MPH Program at DePaul University. Today, I am writing to extend three updates from the Practice committee of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. We …
I am Melanie Hwalek, CEO of SPEC Associates and the LGBT TIG’s representative to the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. I accepted responsibility for spearheading the Policy Subgroup of the Workgroup. In this role, I’m responsible for coordinating our Workgroup’s efforts to infuse the Cultural Competency Statement into policy …
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I’m Tamara Bertrand Jones, an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University, and on the Training Committee of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. We are working on disseminating some critical lessons, such as the following. Emphasis on developing not only evaluation competency, but the skills to …
Hello! My name is Karen Anderson, AEA’s former Diversity Coordinator intern. After supporting the Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group for over a year I became pretty invested in learning more about cultural competence in evaluation. I wish I magically received culturally competent evaluation resources by default, but I had to find them the …
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“Beauty is unity in variety.” (Samuel Coleridge) I am Dominica McBride, CEO of Become, Inc. and member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. The above quote is one of the core lessons I have been reminded of through my work on this task force and is quite germane …
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Hi, we’re Cindy Crusto, associate professor, Yale University School of Medicine and Osman Özturgut, assistant professor,University of the Incarnate Word. We are members of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. We write to remind you of the purpose of the Working Group and the importance of acknowledging the “self” …
We are Alexandra Hill and Diane Hirshberg, and we are part of the Center for Alaska Education Policy Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage. The evaluation part of our work ranges from tiny projects – just a few hours spent helping someone design their own internal evaluation – to rigorous and formal evaluations of …
My name is Laura Pryor, and I am a recent alumna of The American Evaluation Association’s Graduate Education Diversity Initiative (GEDI) program. My experience in the GEDI program largely focused on culturally responsive evaluation. As a result, my current work considers and prioritizes several methods to apply culturally responsive practices. Most recently, I incorporated the …
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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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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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