Topics & Resources Mentioned:

• Getting to know Dr. Rios and Coactive Change a little better
• What is social justice in evaluation?
• Emergent strategy as guiding Dr. Rios in framing social justice evaluation as about imagining different futures
• Abolition literature as another influence for Dr. Rios
• Studying up vs studying down: "Up the anthropologist-Perspectives gained from studying up" by Laura Nader
• AEA session “Illuminating the future context through an equity lens: Why systems evaluators need to use foresight and futures” by Dr. Jen Heeg and Dr. Jewlya Lynn
• AEA session “Evaluation as restorative practice: Exploring how collaborative and participatory methods can promote peace, justice, and healing in Guatemala” by Erica Henderson and Giovanni Dazzo
• Importance of building community and doing this work in relation
• Breathwork with Libby Smith
• Characteristics of white supremacy culture
• How to create, cultivate, and protect space for reflection
• Addressing the inadequate budget and time in proposals for appropriate diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice work
• Finding social justice evaluation work
• Thinking thoughtfully of evaluation questions and being flexible about the evaluation questions throughout the evaluation process
• Approaches, methods, and reporting in social justice evaluation
• Navigating a capitalistic society as a socialist: ownership, authorship, contracts, money, and more

Contact:

• Dr. Aisha Rios: Coactive Change & Twitter @AishaRios17
• EvaluLand: Website & Twitter (@EvaluLand)

About Dr. Rios:

"My name is Aisha Rios. I founded Coactive Change in early 2020 after working for several years as an external evaluator with consulting firms functioning at the federal, state, and local levels. My passion for social change and justice permeates my participatory and collaborative approach to working with partners, and these values ground my belief in the power of evaluation as a means to facilitate learning and change. I have engaged in grassroots organizing and community building that focused on issues ranging from the exploitation of adjuncts who are overworked and underpaid, and most recently the abolition of the prison industrial complex. The work I am most proud of has centered on dismantling structural violence by way of social movement and community organizing, both directly and in supporting other change agents."

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Articles Mentioned:

• At the beginning I mention the RoE TIG’s definition of RoE, which is summarized here.
• Evaluation Journal of Australasia – Special Issue on Values in Evaluation
  • Vol 19, Issue 4: Guest Editors: Keryn Hassall, Kelly Hannum, Amy Gullickson and Mathea Roorda
  • Vol 20, Issue 2: Guest Editors: Ayesha S Boyce, Amy M Gullickson, Keryn Hassall and Kelly Hannum
• New Directions for Evaluation Volume 2020, Issue 166 - Examining issues facing communities of color today: The role of evaluation to incite change: Issue Editors: Leah C. Neubauer Dominica McBride Andrea D. Guajardo Wanda D. Casillas Melvin E. Hall
  • Neubauer, McBride, Guajardo, Casillas, & Hall (2020) Examining issues facing communities of color today: The role of evaluation to incite change
  • Hall (2020) Blest be the tie that binds
  • Reid, Boyce, Adetogun, Moller, & Avent (2020) If not us, then who? Evaluators of color and social change
  • Ghanbarpour, Mercado, & Palotai (2020) A language justice framework for culturally responsive and equitable evaluation
  • Dhaliwal, Casey, Aceves-Iniguez, & Dean-Coffey (2020) Radical inquiry—liberatory praxis for research and evaluation
  • Guajardo, Robles-Schrader, Aponte-Soto, & Neubauer (2020) LatCrit theory as a framework for social justice evaluation: Considerations for evaluation and evaluators
  • Moss & Crewe (2020) The Black perspective: A framework for culturally competent health related evaluations for African Americans
  • Lemos & Garcia (2020) Promoting culturally responsive and equitable evaluation with Latinx immigrants
  • Bowman (2020) Nation-to-nation in evaluation: Utilizing an indigenous evaluation model to frame systems and government evaluations
  • McBride, Casilla, & LoPiccolo (2020) Inciting social change through evaluation
  • Neubauer & Hall (2020) Is inciting social change something evaluators can do? Should do?
• Lemire, Peck, & Porowski (2020) The growth of the evaluation tree in the policy analysis forest
• Hurteau, Rahmanian, Houle, & Marchand (2020) The role of intuition in evaluative judgment and decision
• Brown & Di Lallo (2020) Talking circles: A culturally responsive evaluation practice
• MERL Tech State of the Field Series
• Engage R&D (2020) Listening for change: Evaluators of color speak out about experiences with foundations and evaluation firms

Contact:

EvaluLand: Website & Twitter (@EvaluLand)

Music by Matt Ingelson, http://www.mattingelsonmusic.com/

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