Data + Soul 101 Workshop
Join Chantal Hoff and Min Ma as they present Data + Soul 101 as a pre-conference workshop at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference in Portland, OR. This is the same workshop that was previously presented at AEA’s Summer Institute 2024 in Washington, D.C.
Date: Wednesday October 23, 2024
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. PT
To register: AEA Conference Registration website
Join Chantal Hoff and Min Ma as they present Data + Soul 101 as a pre-conference workshop at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference in Portland, OR. This is the same workshop that was previously presented at AEA’s Summer Institute 2024 in Washington, D.C.
Date: Wednesday October 23, 2024
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. PT
To register: AEA Conference Registration website
Join Chantal Hoff and Min Ma as they present Data + Soul 101 as a pre-conference workshop at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) conference in Portland, OR. This is the same workshop that was previously presented at AEA’s Summer Institute 2024 in Washington, D.C.
Date: Wednesday October 23, 2024
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. PT
To register: AEA Conference Registration website
Title
The work starts with us: Shifting and sustaining our daily evaluation practices to be more equitable, transformative, and full of soul (Workshop 1046)
Description
How often have you downloaded a checklist but never used it, or had a light bulb moment from a blog post but struggled to put it into practice?
The field of evaluation is undergoing important shifts as it examines equity within the practice and its role in the social change ecosystem. These shifts are being guided by numerous approaches and methods (e.g., Equitable Evaluation Framework, Trust-Based Philanthropy, Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation, Data Equity Framework) that challenge evaluators to examine WHAT aspects of traditional research and evaluation practice need to change to be more culturally responsive and in better service of equity.
Even when we know WHAT to do, many evaluators face challenges in figuring out HOW to put it into practice. Perhaps we’ve made equity an explicit value or we’ve cited an equity-centered framework in our project scope or evaluation design. Perhaps we’ve even recognized that uplifting diverse perspectives within our organizations and our communities is an essential piece of that puzzle. How are we actually doing that in practice? How are we sustaining that over time?
During this highly interactive workshop, we will focus on the how. Specifically, we will work together to answer the question: How can our daily actions be in better service of more equitable, transformative relationships with 1) communities and people most impacted by the work, 2) clients and primary evaluation users, and 3) our own evaluation teams?
In the first half of the workshop, participants will engage in self-reflection to examine their personal equitable evaluation practices and how those practices shape relationships within their teams, organizations, and/or with collaborators or clients. Participants will continue to reflect, share, and identify new ideas for practice through small group discussions. In the second half of the workshop, participants will learn how to move from reflection to action through real-world examples. The facilitators will share case studies and examples from our team on how we’ve used equity-centered tools to transform the way we work with each other and ultimately the way we make a difference for our clients and the communities they serve.
This workshop is grounded in foundational principles of data equity and draws inspiration from transformative evaluation, culturally responsive and equitable evaluation approaches, arts-based methods, and appreciative inquiry. Participants will leave this workshop newly inspired and equipped with tools and tangible skills on how to incorporate and sustain these approaches within their evaluation practice.
