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GEDI Week: Danielle Cummings on Persuading Evaluators to Care About Cultural Responsiveness

My name is Danielle Cummings. I am an alumna of the Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program and NYU’s Masters in Public Administration program. As a GEDI, I attended countless workshops, webinars, and discussion groups about culturally responsive evaluation. I noticed that, perhaps unsurprisingly, people who attended these events were either evaluators who were already …

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GEDI Week: Stewart Donaldson, Ashaki Jackson, and John LaVelle on GEDI Week on the AEA365 Blog

A warm hello from Los Angeles! We are Drs. Stewart Donaldson, Ashaki Jackson, and John LaVelle – the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program leadership team. This week, the AEA365 blog will feature insights from our 12th cohort, self-named Funtunfunefu Denkyemfunefu (Unity in Diversity), whose internship sites spanned from California to Maryland. Before we begin, …

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GEDI Week: Ashaki Jackson, Stewart Donaldson, and John LaVelle on the GEDI Program

Hi, we are Ashaki Jackson, Stewart Donaldson, and John LaVelle, and we are the leaders and coordinators of the American Evaluation Association’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship program (GEDI).  November 24-29 is the GEDI sponsored week, and we thought it best to share some important resources about the GEDI program itself (www.eval.org/GEDI). Hot Tip: Program Overview. …

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Cultural Competence Week: Blake Pearson on Just Good Evaluation: Conversations with Evaluators about Culturally Responsive Evaluation

Hello, I’m Blake Pearson, a doctoral student at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas and a member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. I am a part of a subgroup compiling supplemental materials (annotated bibliography, links, favorites) for the AEA website. Today, I’d like …

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Cultural Competence Week: Lisa Aponte-Soto and Leah Christina Neubauer on Increasing the AEA Latino/a Visibility and Scholarship

We are Lisa Aponte-Soto and Leah Christina Neubauer from Chicago.  Aponte-Soto teaches at DePaul University, is an independent consultant in the areas of cultural competency, Latino/a health, and diversity talent management; and, a member of the Graduate Diversity Internship Program (GEDI) 2009-2010 cohort. Neubauer is based in DePaul’s MPH Program and is the current President …

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Susan Kistler on the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship

Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director and Saturday contributor for aea365. I’m excited to be able to share this week that AEA is now taking applications for the AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program. The goals of GEDI are to: Expand the pool of graduate students of color and from other underrepresented groups who …

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

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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Tamara Williams and Ciara Zachary on the Benefits of Focus Groups

Hello AEA! This is Tamara Williams and Ciara Zachary, and we are members of the seventh cohort for the Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program. Tamara is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the department of Sociology. Ciara is doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the department …

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Dawn Henderson and Ebun Odeneye on Tips and Strategies for Internal Program Evaluators

Our names are Dawn Henderson and Ebun Odeneye. We are members of the 2010-2011 cohort of the AEA Graduate Diversity Education Internship (GEDI) Program. New internal evaluators often struggle with balancing general program duties with evaluation-specific responsibilities, so we will be sharing some effective tips to help evaluators facing this same challenge. Hot Tip: As …

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Alison Mendoza and Yusuf Ransome on GEDI Intern Reflections of the AEA Annual Conference

We are Alison Mendoza and Yusuf Ransome, interns in AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program.  GEDI interns are graduate students in various disciplines in the social sciences who, through a nine-month internship and participation in various workshops throughout the year, gain hands-on experience in evaluation. GEDI interns also receive support from experienced mentors both …

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