racial equity

AZENet Week: Addressing Social Equity In and With Professional Evaluator Events by Jenny McCullough Cosgrove, Nicole Huggett, and Deven Wisner

We are Jenny McCullough Cosgrove, Nicole Huggett, and Deven Wisner, the 2017-2018 conference planning committee for the AEA Arizona Local Affiliate, the Arizona Evaluation Network (AZENet). This year, we built off of the momentum from the inspiring #Eval17 AEA conference, to bring focus and meaningful attention to inclusion and equity in evaluative practice at our …

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CP TIG Week: Courtney Barnard on Evaluating Community Impact through a Racial Equity Lens

My name is Courtney Barnard and I am a social worker, coalition coordinator, and program evaluator for a children’s health care system in Fort Worth, Texas. Lessons Learned: I recently attended a workshop on local children’s health data and racial equity. I quickly realized that, though with good intentions, my colleagues and I often conflate …

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Tom Wolff on Community-engaged Scholarship to Create Racial Justice

I am Tom Wolff, independent consultant with Tom Wolff & Associates.  A recent Boston Globe article, “Trials aim to keep recurring patients from hospitalization” by Sabrina Tavernise, described the work of the $10 billion Innovation Center that is part of the Affordable Care Act. As they attempt to manage the most expensive patients the article …

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GEDI Week: Faheemah Mustafaa on Pursuing Racial Equity in Evaluation Practice

My name is Faheemah Mustafaa, and I am a doctoral candidate in Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan, and alumna of AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI).  During my internship at Public Policy Associates, Inc., we discussed how racial equity could be moved from “vision to reality” in evaluation practice. Lessons Learned Examine …

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