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• Partner Event (series of 5!): Evaluation Association of St. Louis - Evaluation Leaders Series.

  • Start
    02/07/2023
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    2:00 PM
  • End
    05/23/2023
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

  Dear CEA Members,

  Our colleagues at The Evaluation Association of St. Louis have invited us to join their upcoming event. Please see the details and registration information below.

  The Evaluation Association of St. Louis is offering a discounted registration rate to CEA members for their Evaluation Leaders Series.

  What it is: A web-based virtual series of 5 American Evaluation Association leaders (Tessie Catsambas, Michael Quinn Patton, Stewart Donaldson, Donna Mertens, and John Gargani) who will share their experiences with local evaluators in St. Louis and beyond. All of these individuals have been the president of the American Evaluation Association and are currently involved with supporting program evaluation research, education, professional development and/or running evaluation practices.

  Purpose: The series will bring these innovative leaders and their ideas to the local community. The Series will reinforce the idea that there is great value to connection to the American Evaluation Association.  

  Cost:  $10 per session for affiliate members/ $30 for the series. $20 per session for the general public / $60 for the whole series.  

  If you are a current CEA Member, email CEA at connect@evalchicago.org for the discount code. 

  You can find the registration link here. (https://easl.wildapricot.org/EASL-Evaluation-Leaders-Series).

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• Ask Stephanie Evergreen Your Data Visualization and Business Development Questions!

  • When
    04/12/2023
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    National Louis University - Downtown Chicago (Room and exact location TBD)

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  Stephanie Evergreen is coming to Chicago and putting aside an hour, in-person, to answer questions from CEA members. She is well-known for her data visualization work and also serves as a business development coach. What questions do you have for her?

  
  

  This means:

  1) Register now to attend (4/12) and;

  2) Send us your questions for Stephanie!

  
  

  To make best use of everyone’s time, we will be collecting questions ahead of time for Stephanie to answer. Do you want feedback on a visualization? Want ideas for how to represent some data? Need guidance on developing your own business? Just really want to know who her favorite Spice Girl is? Now is your opportunity to ask!

  Please submit questions here (they can be anonymous, or you can include your name and contact info so we can do our best to clearly communicate it). 

  
  

  Please submit questions by April 10th.

  We imagine at least 45 minutes of curated questions from CEA members, and hopefully some time at the end for any further questions from audience members.

  Come for snacks and mingling at 5:30; Stephanie Evergreen begins answering your questions promptly at 6pm!

  
  

  Stephenie Evergreen

  

  Dr. Stephanie Evergreen is an internationally-recognized speaker, designer, and researcher. She is best known for bringing a research-based approach to helping people better communicate their work through more effective graphs, slides, and reports. A Fulbright scholar, she holds a PhD in interdisciplinary research, which included a dissertation on the extent of graphic design use in written research reporting. Dr. Evergreen has trained people worldwide through keynote presentations and workshops, for Fortune 500 clients like MasterCard and Facebook and missionaligned clients like the United Nations, the Boys and Girls Club, AARP, and The Alaska Native Trial Health Consortium. She is the 2015 recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Guttentag award, given for notable accomplishments early in a career and the 2017 recipient of the Myrdal award for impacts on practice. Dr. Evergreen is co-editor and co-author of two issues of New Directions for Evaluation on data visualization. She writes a popular blog on data presentation at StephanieEvergreen.com. Her two books on designing high-impact graphs, slideshows, and reports both hit #1 on Amazon bestseller lists weeks before they were even released. In 2019, Dr. Evergreen published the second edition of one of those bestsellers and a brand new sketchbook with templates for making infographics and dashboards.

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• Partner Event: Empowering Emerging Evaluators, Encompass Learning Center

  • When
    05/31/2023
  •  
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

  Dear CEA Members,

  Our colleagues at The EnCompass Learning Center have invited us to join their upcoming event. Please see the details and registration information below.

  
  

  Empowering Emerging Evaluators

  Date and Time: May 31, 2023, from 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. ET

  Panel Discussion followed by Q&A

   

  This special event is free, but space is limited! Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/empowering-emerging-evaluators-tickets-591743018297

   

  Empowering young and emerging evaluators (YEEs) is crucial for building a robust, diverse, inclusive, and sustainable evaluation community that can address the complex challenges we face. By providing opportunities for emerging evaluators to develop their skills and gain practical experience (and proactively contribute to evaluation community effort), we can ensure a more sustainable and fair future of the evaluation field. Additionally, promoting the inclusion of young and diverse perspectives in evaluation and the active participation of YEEs can help to promote social justice and equity, and ensure that evaluation processes are more inclusive, equitable, and responsive to the needs of diverse communities.

   

  The EnCompass Learning Center  panel on Empowering Young and Emerging Evaluators (YEEs), moderated by Khalil Bitar, will feature representatives from EvalYouth, the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Program, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Evaluation Fellowship, and the Work Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). These panelists, who have each played instrumental roles in supporting the community of YEEs, will share their perspectives on the following:

  • The transformative power of engaging YEEs in evaluation
  • The way in which the communities of practice and fellowships they represent have opened up pathways for YEEs and changed the field as a whole
  • Advice for those who are entering the market
  • Advice for employers on how to best support and engage YEEs in their work

   

  Moderator

  Khalil Bitar, ELC Faculty and Co-founder and former Chair of EvalYouth Global Network

   

  Panelists

  Mariana Branco – Founder, P2P+ Evaluation Career Advisory Services, World Bank Group IEG

  Gabriela Renteria Flores – Chair, EvalYouth Global Network

  Brandi Gilbert – Co-Director, AEA Graduate Education Diversity Internship Program

  Linda Vo – Evaluation Lead, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

   

  Please note that this event will take place online via zoom. The login information for the event will be emailed to registrants at least one week prior to the event. The session will be recorded and shared (for a very limited time) with people who have registered. This is to enable access to those who may not be able to join us live on the 31st.

   

  If you have any questions, please reach out to us at learningcenter@encompassworld.com.

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