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MIE & La RED TIGs Week: The Cultural is Political by Satlaj Dighe

2 Comments / Latinx Responsive Evaluation Discourse, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / August 4, 2019

Hi there! I’m Satlaj Dighe, doctoral candidate in Evaluation Studies program at University of Minnesota. Before joining the Ph.D. program, I worked with diverse communities in India and South-east Asia as a health trainer, researcher and community mobilizer. These are my thoughts on how to navigate power and politics working with diverse and multicultural communities. …

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A Look at Language Week: Tidying Evaluation of “Diversity” & “Culture” by Vidhya Shanker

2 Comments / Uncategorized / June 23, 2019

Vidhya Shanker from Rainbow Research here. Inspired by Marie Kondo, who advises keeping only what touches our hearts, I offer evaluation two words to discard. Diversity: Descended from business, “diversity” was introduced in evaluation in the late 1980s by AEA president Ross Conner. Conner explicitly expressed concern regarding the representation of women—where he felt AEA …

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DOVP Week: June Gothberg on Involving Vulnerable Populations in Evaluation and Research

3 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / August 23, 2013

Greetings, I am June Gothberg, incoming Director of the Michigan Transition Outcomes Project and past co-chair of the Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Populations topical interest group at AEA.  I hope you’ve enjoyed a great week of information specific to projects involving these populations.  As a wrap up I thought I’d end with broad information on …

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ACA Week: Don Glass on Arts, Culture, and Audiences Week

1 Comment / Arts, Culture, and Museums / November 10, 2012

Hi. I am Don Glass the co-chairperson of the Arts, Culture, and Audiences TIG. Along with my co-chair Kathleen Tinworth, we are excited to host a week of aea365. Our colleague Joe Heimlich has curated this series to explore evaluation of arts and culture, arts education, arts participation, informal learning, and visitor studies. Please join …

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Kelly Hannum on Leadership Development for Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / April 23, 2012

I’m Kelly Hannum. I’ve been evaluating leadership development programs for almost two decades. I am convinced that effective leaders and effective evaluators have similar mindsets and employ similar skills.  I encourage leaders to think like evaluators, and via this post I’m encouraging evaluators to think and develop themselves as leaders. At the Center for Creative …

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Robin Kelly on A Tip on Activating Your Cultural Intelligence

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Health Evaluation, Internal Evaluation / April 23, 2012

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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Dominica McBride on Sociocultural Theory and its Applicability to Evaluation

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Feminist Issues in Evaluation, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / March 5, 2012

I’m Dominica McBride, President of The HELP Institute, Inc. Recently, I wrote an article for New Directions for Evaluation on Sociocultural Theory (ST) and its applicability to evaluation. Joke: There were a few young fish swimming near an older, wise fish and the old, wise fish says, “My, isn’t the water wonderful today?” and the …

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WMU Week: Kelly Robertson on the Depths of Culture and What it Looks Like in Practice

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / December 11, 2011

My name is Kelly Robertson and I am a project manager at The Evaluation Center and a student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation program at Western Michigan University. This fall I was fortunate enough to have been able to attend several lectures and discussions led by visiting scholar Dr. Rodney Hopson which left me …

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Linda Cabral on Using Cultural Brokers on Evaluation Teams

1 Comment / Behavioral Health, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / November 28, 2011

Hello, I’m Linda Cabral, a Senior Project Director from the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In an effort to more fully engage people from different cultural backgrounds and their communities in one of our recently-completed qualitative evaluation projects for our State’s Department of Mental Health, we employed …

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Ayesha Boyce, Maria Jimenez, and Gabriela Juarez on Presenting Cultural and Other Sensitive Evaluation Findings Through Skits

5 Comments / Graduate Student and New Evaluators, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation / September 29, 2011

Greetings from Champaign, IL! We are Ayesha Boyce, Maria Jimenez, and Gabriela Juarez. We are all currently pursuing our Ph.D. in evaluation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We have found as a multicultural evaluation team that sometimes sensitive topics such as race, class and gender are best presented through creative means. These types of …

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