Beyond Seeing: Transformational Evaluation through the Lens of Racial Justice

Beyond Seeing: Transformational Evaluation through the Lens of Racial Justice

Oct 15, 202009:30 pm

Oct 15, 202011:00 pm(GMT+0)

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Event details

Individuals and organizations are becoming increasingly aware of the historical, contextual, and powerful systems that perpetuate oppression of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. People are recognizing the imperative need to reevaluate and redefine the way we have done things, including how we use data to assess and improve social impact. This session will guide evaluators and applied researchers through an exploration of how our everyday narratives can be embedded with racial biases that manifest in evaluation strategies, and explore ways to create culturally responsive and equitable evaluations.


Join us as we welcome Geri Lynn Peak to guide us in this transformation. During our time together, we will consider our social conditioning around race and reflect on the implications for our too often unexamined beliefs about bias, rigor and confidence in our approaches. Then we will explore culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE) and how it both benefits uplifting the voice for BIPOC communities and BIPOC evaluation practitioners and elevates excellence in evaluation. And finally, we’ll take a look at ourselves and consider how personal growth, reflection and transformation in response to deeper acknowledgement of our racialized reality polishes our lens and mirror, sharpens our insight and makes our work more meaningful. We'll balance styles of learning to model interactive and collaborative learning along with more didactic information dissemination.

Harambee (we all pull together)!!


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