This panel of AEA local affiliates will describe their efforts, challenges, and triumphs towards consciously linking social justice to evaluation in their respective learning communities. They will discuss how these intentional efforts enhance the field of evaluation (for evaluators, funders, and consumers). These affiliates have experience with supporting a durable pipeline of evaluators from diverse backgrounds (e.g., evaluators of color, youth and lay evaluators) and increasing knowledge of and ability to conduct culturally responsive evaluation with diverse teams as an emergent standard practice. Additional strategies include interviewing evaluators from underrepresented backgrounds to understand their experiences, mentorship needs, and experiences with workplace discrimination; increasing evaluator competency to address inequality, racism, and other –isms in each stage of the evaluation project, and leveraging existing leadership programs to expose students and early career professionals to evaluation.
Session Facilitator: Emily R Connors, MS [Director, Evaluation and Research Analytics - Medical College of Wisconsin, CTSI ] First Author or Discussion Group Leader: Nicole Robinson [Evaluator, President of MilwaukeeEvaluation! Inc. - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee] Second Author or Discussion Group Leader: Sena Pierce [Senior Research Associate - Kamehameha Schools]
This event will be held at the AEA annual conference. For more information visit: http://www.evaluationconference.org/p/cm/ld/fid=522
