Washington Evaluators members will be well represented, not only as attendees, but also as presenters in this year's American Evaluation Association fall conference in Cleveland, OH. At least 59 Washington Evaluators members will participate as presenters, panel chairs, group leaders, in poster sessions, and as discussants in at least 124 sessions. Congratulations to all!
A list of Washington Evaluators members participating in AEA sessions in any capacity is provided below (as of Oct. 5, 2018). Please refer to the official program at www.eval.org for all final session dates and times.
Michelle Abraczinskas:
Friday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - YFE3: Youth Speaking Truth To Power
Joy Amulya:
Thursday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm - 1645: Winning the war on state-sponsored propaganda: Results from an impact evaluation of a Ukrainian news media and information literacy program
Thursday Concurrents 5:00pm-5:45pm - 1659: Using Evaluation to Inform the Design of Program Networks for Societal Change
Saturday Concurrents 10:15am-11:00am - 1989: Democratizing evaluation: Whose Questions? Whose Data? Whose Learning?
Stephen Axelrad:
Thursday Concurrents 5:00pm-5:45pm - 1248: Building Collaborative Evaluations from Stakeholder Analysis
TIG Business Meetings - TIGBM37: Military and Veteran Evaluations TIG Business Meeting
Denise Baer:
Wednesday Concurrents 5:45pm-6:30pm - 2702:"Capacity To" Collaboration Tool for Assessing Partnership and Coalition "democratic" Governance for Advocacy and Policy Reform
Saturday Concurrents 9:15am-10:00am - DG2: Parliaments, Policy and Monitoring and Evaluation
Gail Barrington:
Pre-Conference Workshop - One Day (Wed) - 46: (46) Intermediate Consulting Skills
Thursday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - 1518: AEA's Evaluator Competencies-- what can we learn from other Evaluation societies about next steps?
Friday Concurrents 5:45pm-6:45pm - 1247: What Happens Afterwards? Ways to De-brief with Clients
Post-Conference Workshop - Half Day (Sat PM) - 64: (64) Consulting After 50: Career Transition Issues
Alemayehu Bekele:
Thursday Concurrents 3:45pm-4:45pm - 2431: GEDI 14: Building emerging CRE Practitioners and Scholars
Heather Britt:
Thursday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - 1906: Systems Approaches for Organizational Development
Thursday Concurrents 1:45pm-2:30pm - 1936: Principles-Focused Evaluation for Robust M&E Frameworks: Examples from countering violent extremism
TIG Business Meetings - TIGBM54: Systems in Evaluation TIG Business Meeting
Friday Concurrents 5:45pm-6:45pm - 1186: Applying Principles for the Effective Use of Systems Thinking and Complexity Science in Evaluation
Adalei Broers:
Thursday Concurrents 5:00pm-5:45pm - 2695: Five Organizations and One MEL System: Successes and Challenges
Kerry Bruce:
Pre-Conference Workshop - One Day (Wed) - 19: (19) Big data and evaluation
Friday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - 2395: How can MEL Tools lead Adaptive Management?
Friday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - 2193: When Many Choices are Good Choices: Considerations in Qualitative Data Analysis Software Platforms Through a Discussion of MAXQDA, NVivo, and Dedoose
David Bernstein:
Wednesday Concurrents 5:45pm-6:30pm - DUP1: Power to Succeed: Exploring Employment and Living Outcomes for People with Disabilities
Friday Concurrents 10:30am-11:15am - 1187:35 Years of Evaluation Learning in 5 Minutes
Friday Concurrents 3:30pm-4:15pm - 1113: Monitoring and Evaluating Inclusive Program Practices
Val Caracelli:
Friday Concurrents 5:45pm-6:45pm - 2391: Speaking Truth to Power When Power Isn’t Listening: The Current Challenges of Evaluation Influence
Ratiba Cherif:
Friday Concurrents 2:15pm-3:15pm - 2639: The OL-ECB Information Commons: Guidelines for Selecting and Curating Content
Friday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - 2307: Harnessing creativity for evaluation
Cynthia Clapp-Wincek:
Friday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - 1643: Roundtable Discussion of International VOPE and AEA Efforts in Evaluation Policy Development and Advocacy
Friday Concurrents 5:45pm-6:45pm - 1667: Update on AEA's Role in EvalPartners and the International Organization on Cooperation in Evaluation
Susan Cottrell:
Pre-Conference Workshop - Half Day (Wed PM) - 56: (56) Using Surveys and Brainstoming Tools to Empower Staff
Katherine Dawes:
Wednesday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - 1045: Learning from failure: Speaking truth to each other
Giovanni Dazzo:
Poster Reception and Meet-the-Authors - 2092: Evaluating Visually: Translating raw data to stunning visual communications to facilitate uptake of evaluation information
Thursday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm - 1382: Whose Stories Matter?: Using Secondary Analysis and Meta-monitoring to Explore Power and Values in the ‘Most Significant Change’ Process
Thursday Concurrents 1:45pm-2:30pm - 1841: Words matter. Managing power dynamics across stakeholders to ensure participation during evaluation and use of evidence.
Jennifer Dewey:
TIG Business Meetings - TIGBM5: Business, Leadership, and Performance TIG Business Meeting
Friday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - BLP2: Towards a General Theory of Monitoring and Evaluation
Danuta Dobosz:
Thursday Concurrents 10:30am-11:15am - 1694: Teaching Qualitative Methods in Evaluation Online: Instructor and Student Perspectives
Friday Concurrents 3:30pm-4:15pm - DG1: Evidence-Based Programs and Evaluating Democracy
Ann Doucette:
Pre-Conference Workshop - Half Day (Wed PM) - 50: (50) Measurement: How precise are the finding of my evaluation??
Thursday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - 2776: Practitioner Challenges and Successes when Speaking Truth: Cases from Various Stages in an Evaluation
Friday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - 1427: Giving an active voice to respondents through effective survey design
Diana Epstein:
Thursday Concurrents 3:45pm-4:45pm - 2502: Executive and Legislative Perspectives on Federal Evaluation Policy
Lynne Franco:
Pre-Conference Workshop - Half Day (Wed PM) - 55: (55) Enhancing the truth in triangulation: Approaches to Data Analysis and Interpretation
Thursday Concurrents 1:45pm-2:30pm - 1841: Words matter. Managing power dynamics across stakeholders to ensure participation during evaluation and use of evidence.
Friday Concurrents 3:30pm-4:15pm - 1504:The Pathway to High Effective Coverage at Scale-a framework for enhancing truth in program strategy, monitoring and evaluation
Rebecca Frazier:
Friday Concurrents 10:30am-11:15am - 2679: How to Use a “Bundled” Evaluation Methodology to Speak Truth to Power
Sierra Frischknecht:
Thursday Concurrents 2:45pm-3:30pm - 2762: How to Make Evaluating in Transition a Joint Initiative
Friday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - 2167: Capturing Leadership Outcomes with Most Significant Change
Friday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - 2536: Networks of International Leadership Development Programs: Who has the power and why do we care?
Friday Concurrents 5:45pm-6:45pm - HPEER2: Intro to HPEER Part 2: Conducting Evaluation Work in the Healthcare Environment
Saturday Concurrents 9:15am-10:00am - 2519:A new look for greater use: visual reporting at MCC
Alejandra Garcia Diaz Villamil:
Friday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - ICCE4: Cultural Competency and Sense Making in International Evaluation
Saturday Concurrents 11:15am-12:00pm - FIE1: The Power of Evidence in Gender Equality Evaluations
Nick Hart:
Thursday Concurrents 10:30am-11:15am - 3062: AEA Evaluation Policy Task Force (EPTF) Update
Thursday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm - 1025: Promoting Evidence-Building Capacity for Learning in Government
Thursday Concurrents 3:45pm-4:45pm - 2502: Executive and Legislative Perspectives on Federal Evaluation Policy
Friday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - 1643: Roundtable: Updating AEA's "Evaluation Roadmap for a More Effective Government"
Friday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm (Presidential Strand) -2701: Power to Truth = Evidence: Establishing a Culture of Evaluation for Evidence-Based Decisions and Policymaking
Kelva Hunger:
Friday Concurrents 3:30pm-4:15pm - 2779: Investigating and Measuring Burnout among Program Evaluators
Mary Hyde:
Friday Concurrents 2:15pm-3:15pm - 1843: Using Evidence to Scale-Up Community Based Solutions That Work – A Federal Agency’s Framework and Approach
Jonathan Jones:
Poster Reception and Meet-the-Authors - 2092: Evaluating Visually: Translating raw data to stunning visual communications to facilitate uptake of evaluation information
Thursday Concurrents 1:45pm-2:30pm - 1841: Words matter. Managing power dynamics across stakeholders to ensure participation during evaluation and use of evidence.
Akashi Kaul:
Friday Concurrents 5:45pm-6:45pm - MIE1: Culturally Responsive Strategies for Addressing the Elephants in the Room: Race and Power
Jackie Kaye:
Friday Concurrents 3:30pm-4:15pm - 1813: Measuring the Health of Social Movements: Exploring questions of power, truth and speaking
Kirk Knestis:
Pre-Conference Workshop - Half Day (Wed PM) - 48: (48) Overcoming Traditional Weaknesses of Logic Models with a Novel "Condition Modeling" Approach
Wednesday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - 1303: Game Changers: Lessons from Small Evaluation Firms
Thursday Concurrents 10:30am-11:15am - 1455: Gun violence in the US: What if it’s a data problem before it’s a “gun problem” or “people problem?”
Anne Laesecke:
Friday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - 2167: Capturing Leadership Outcomes with Most Significant Change
Friday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - 2536: Networks of International Leadership Development Programs: Who has the power and why do we care?
Steven Lize:
Thursday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm - 3061: Innovative Efforts in State-Level Evaluation Policy and Practice
Alissa Marchant:
Thursday Concurrents 5:00pm-5:45pm - 2219: Find your niche: Using evaluation to improve business communications
McDonald, Sarah-Kay:
Friday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm (Presidential Strand) - 2701: Power to Truth = Evidence: Establishing a Culture of Evaluation for Evidence-Based Decisions and Policymaking
Donna Mertens:
Pre-Conference Workshop - Two Day (Mon/Tues) - 01: (01) Eval 101
Birds of a Feather - 1229: Intersecting transformative evaluation and social impact investing
Friday Concurrents 5:45pm-6:45pm (Presidential Strand) - 1111: Challenging and re-framing truth and power in evaluation
Post-Conference Workshop - Half Day (Sat PM) - 59: (59) Mixed Methods Design in Evaluation
Patricia Moore Shaffer:
Thursday Concurrents 3:45pm-4:45pm - 2286: Arts Education Collective Impact Initiatives: Meeting the Challenge of Shared Measurement across Sites
Friday Concurrents 3:30pm-4:15pm - PD1: Exploring Approaches to Program Design: Finding Voice and Reconciling Truths
Susan Morawetz:
Thursday Concurrents 3:45pm-4:45pm - 2582: Fighting Famines
Ian David Moss:
Thursday Concurrents 10:30am-11:15am - 1571: Embedding Evaluation in the Decision-Making Process
Ioana Munteanu:
Friday Concurrents 5:45pm-6:45pm - GE3: Strengthening Government Performance Through Evaluations
Erin Murrock:
Thursday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm - 1645: Winning the war on state-sponsored propaganda: Results from an impact evaluation of a Ukrainian news media and information literacy program
Thursday Concurrents 5:00pm-5:45pm - 1659: Using Evaluation to Inform the Design of Program Networks for Societal Change
Kathryn Newcomer:
Thursday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm - 1025: Promoting Evidence-Building Capacity for Learning in Government
Cheryl Oros:
Poster Reception and Meet-the-Authors - 1877: Applying theory-driven approach in evaluating the planning and implementation of a school-based telemedicine program in rural Georgia
Thursday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm - 1211: Using Theory-Driven Approach to Assess Unintended Effects
Friday Concurrents 10:30am-11:15am - 1003: Introduction to Evaluation and Policy
William Pate:
Friday Concurrents 2:15pm-3:15pm - CMME1: Managing Site Specifics in Multisite Evaluation
Friday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - 3064: Good Data, Bad Data
Julia Rollison:
Wednesday Concurrents 5:45pm-6:30pm - 1594: Moving Beyond Document Storage: Using SharePoint to More Effectively Manage Evaluations
Thursday Concurrents 10:30am-11:15am - 1597: Using SharePoint to Track and Present Data for Process and Outcome Evaluations
Katelyn Sedelmyer:
Thursday Concurrents 3:45pm-4:45pm - CPPE5: Learning from Community Evaluations: Theory and Practice
Friday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - OLECB1: ECB in Community-Based and Nonprofit Organizations
Godfrey Senkaba:
Friday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - 1852: Working with Assumptions: Understanding how Evaluators Make Decisions about Capturing Reality/Context
Jacqueline Singh:
Friday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm - 1285: Who has Power in Higher Education? Deeper Thinking About Evidence-Based Decision-Making
Kelly Skeith:
Poster Reception and Meet-the-Authors - 1815: Understanding Rights-based Politics: Using Applied Political Economy Analysis to Guide Human Rights Programming
Thursday Concurrents 3:45pm-4:45pm - 2439: Risky Business: Evaluation in High-Risk Political Environments
Thursday Concurrents 5:00pm-5:45pm - 2695: Five Organizations and One MEL System: Successes and Challenges
TIG Business Meetings - TIGBM14: Democracy and Governance TIG Business Meeting
Juna Snow:
Poster Reception and Meet-the-Authors - 1639: Is evaluator-focused meta-evaluation occurring or just theorized?
Thursday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - 2776: Practitioner Challenges and Successes when Speaking Truth: Cases from Various Stages in an Evaluation
TIG Business Meetings - TIGBM6: Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluation TIG Business Meeting
Friday Concurrents 2:15pm-3:15pm - CMME1: Managing Site Specifics in Multisite Evaluation
Friday Concurrents 3:30pm-4:15pm - GE1: A Closer Look at Telework in the Federal Environment
Sarya Sok:
Thursday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm - 1382: Whose Stories Matter?: Using Secondary Analysis and Meta-monitoring to Explore Power and Values in the ‘Most Significant Change’ Process
Linda Stern:
Wednesday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - 1978: Speaking Many Truths to Power: re-appropriating mobile ethnography for evaluative case studies.
Friday Concurrents 10:30am-11:15am - 1707: Speaking Truth to Political Power: Lessons from International Democracy Assistance Evaluations
Beeta Tahmassebi:
Thursday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm - 2179: The Art of Crafting a Successful Engagement – How to balance the power dynamics between funders and consultants to ensure evaluation success
Friday Concurrents 11:30am-12:15pm - 2161: Grassroots or Grasstops? Measuring the Effectiveness of Advocacy Strategies
Brandie Taylor:
Poster Reception and Meet-the-Authors - 2013: Assessment of the Centers for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen Design at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Organizational Learning & Evaluation Capacity Building - 1996: Evaluation Training Needs Assessment at the National Institute of Allergy and Infecti cous Diseases
Research, Technology & Development Evaluation - 2022: Process and Outcome Evaluation of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Friday Concurrents 3:30pm-4:15pm - GE1: A Closer Look at Telework in the Federal Environment
Juha Uitto:
Thursday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - 1816: Lessons from applying Rapid Impact Evaluation
Dana Wanzer:
Wednesday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - RE1: Contextual issues in evaluation practice
Thursday Concurrents 8:00am-9:00am - DVR1: Research on Data Visualization
Asia Williams:
Thursday Concurrents 2:45pm-3:30pm - CD2: Effectiveness of skill-building and self-sufficiency initiatives: Results from two recent studies
Friday Concurrents 5:45pm-6:45pm - MIE1:Culturally Responsive Strategies for Addressing the Elephants in the Room: Race and Power
Saturday Concurrents 10:15am-11:00am - 2750: Catalysts of Change: Out-of-School Time STEM Programs for Underrepresented Youth
Brian Yates:
Pre-Conference Workshop - Half Day (Wed PM) - 45: (45) Adding Costs to Make Your Evaluation More Impactful (and Better Used): Using Cost-Effectiveness, Cost-Benefit, Cost-Utility Analyses for Health and Human Services
Wednesday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - 1154: Seeking and Speaking Truths in Terms that Power Understands: Problems and Solutions in Cost-Inclusive Evaluation
Lily Zandniapour:
Friday Concurrents 2:15pm-3:15pm - 1843: Using Evidence to Scale-Up Community Based Solutions That Work – A Federal Agency’s Framework and Approach
Friday Concurrents 4:30pm-5:30pm - 2442: Maximizing Evaluation Use: Examples from Social Innovation Fund Intermediary Funders