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LGBT Week: Jason Taylor on the Educational Context for LGBT Youth

Leave a Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / January 29, 2012

My name is Jason Taylor and I’m a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I study programs and policies related to educational access, equity, and success, particularly as they relate to higher education. Among the tragic legacies of 2011 is the widespread publicity …

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LGBT Week: Kathleen Tinworth on Being an LGBT Ally

3 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / January 29, 2012

I’m Kathleen Tinworth, co-chair of AEA’s Evaluating Art & Culture TIG and member/avid supporter of the LGBT TIG. I am humbled and honored to be a part of the LGBT TIG’s AEA365 blog series and excited to share with you why I feel being an ally is essential to our work as evaluators. First of …

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LGBT Week: Robert Hoke and Efrain Gutierrez on Insights Into LGBTs and Evaluation

1 Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 6, 2012

Hi. We’re Robert Hoke and Efrain Gutierrez, co-chairs for the TIG, with John Dawes, one of the program co-chairs, and we’re part of the leadership team for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Issues TIG. Today’s provocative blog was written with the intent to build awareness of LBGT issues in Culturally Sensitive Evaluation. Through …

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Susan Kistler on Sharing Your Ideas on Including Gender and Identity to Win a Copy of Finding Out

7 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 19, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. In last week’s post, I told you how to win a copy of Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting by suggesting your favorite (or a hated) data visualization via the aea365 comments. Hot Tip: We received lots of great …

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LGBT Week: John Daws on Submitting a Conference Proposal to the LGBT TIG for Evaluation 2011

1 Comment / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 19, 2011

Hi. I’m John Daws, a Senior Research Specialist in the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth, and Families at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. I’m here to ask you to consider submitting a conference proposal to the LGBT Issues Topical Interest Group for the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference. Have you worked on an …

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LGBT Week: Robin Lin Miller & Miles McNall on Putting Disempowered People at the Center of the Evaluation

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues, Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation / February 14, 2011

Can community members be meaningfully engaged in evaluations when time is short? Our experience suggests that they can. We are Robin Lin Miller and Miles McNall. Robin is Professor of Ecological and Community Psychology and Miles is Associate Director of the Community Evaluation and Research Collaborative, both at Michigan State University. We have evaluated community-based …

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LGBT Week: Joe Heimlich on Why Ask Questions?

3 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / September 1, 2011

Greetings! I’m Joe Heimlich, a Professor at The Ohio State University with Extension, the School of Environment & Natural Resources, and the Environmental Science Graduate Program. I’m also a Senior Research Associate with the Institute for Learning Innovation. This year, along with John Daws, I’m Program co-Chair for the AEA LGBT Issues TIG. Hot Tip: …

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LGBT Week: Denice Cassaro on Using Open-Ended Demographic Categories to Learn About Race, Ethnicity, Sex, and Gender

2 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 14, 2011

My name is Denice Cassaro. I am strongly committed to serving as a positive social change agent and educator through the use of evaluation processes. I have found incorporating queer/feminist/critical race theories helpful by the challenges offered in: understanding concepts of identities (race/ethnicity, sex/gender, sexual orientation/preference) as socially constructed not minimizing the impact/meaning of intersecting …

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LGBT Week: Käri Greene on Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Evaluation

3 Comments / Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues / February 13, 2011

My name is Käri Greene and I’m a Senior Research Analyst at an intergovernmental agency for the Oregon Public Health Division and Multnomah County Health Department, as well as a co-Chair for the LGBT Issues TIG. Our TIG explores areas of sexuality, gender and identity as they relate to evaluation theory, practice, and use, specifically …

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