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The racial reckoning of 2020, heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic, has provided an opportunity for foundations and nonprofits to address long-standing inequities within society. Increasingly, foundations are focused on funding with a racial equity and justice lens and are asking for specific evaluation approaches that will bring partners, communities and those most impacted together to identify important questions and outcomes.

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Can you describe "sketch mapping" or do you have some illustrations of it?

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Can you describe "sketch mapping" or do you have some illustrations of it?

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How do you create an invisible data table under a graph? We include a separate table in an appendix but invisible data is intriguing!

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How do you create an invisible data table under a graph? We include a separate table in an appendix but invisible data is intriguing!

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When and where ESG framework can be applied and is sufficient as an evaluation tool

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https://www.shellyphd.com/sample-dashboards.html

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How to design interactive dynamic dashboards in Excel; sample dashboard included; advanced dashboards

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Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) is the gold standard in software for analyzing word use. It can be used to study a single individual, groups of people over time, or all of social media.

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For visualizations, reconsider tooltips. These are very hard to comprehend for visually impaired when using voice software.

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For visualizations, reconsider tooltips. These are very hard to comprehend for visually impaired when using voice software.

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When working with indigenous population, *qualitative* geospatial analysis may result in richer understanding than quantitative geospatial analysis.

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When working with indigenous population, *qualitative* geospatial analysis may result in richer understanding than quantitative geospatial analysis.

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We need new visualizations to capture non-binary categories in our reports. Leaving it at as Female/Male creates the illusion that other genders are not as important or even exist.

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We need new visualizations to capture non-binary categories in our reports. Leaving it at as Female/Male creates the illusion that other genders are not as important or even exist.

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It is almost never appropriate to hold listening sessions or focus groups to get feedback from traumatized populations. Privacy, addressing basic needs, building rapport are key in getting high quality feedback and avoid retraumatization.

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It is almost never appropriate to hold listening sessions or focus groups to get feedback from traumatized populations. Privacy, addressing basic needs, building rapport are key in getting high quality feedback and avoid retraumatization.

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When analyzing food insecurity, think about whether it's a food desert or food apartheid. The latter is an intentional policy.

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When analyzing food insecurity, think about whether it's a food desert or food apartheid. The latter is an intentional policy.

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Focus on documenting resilience, not problems.

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Focus on documenting resilience, not problems.

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Evaluators aren't taught how to wield and shift the power they have.

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Evaluators aren't taught how to wield and shift the power they have.

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Excel dashboards can be protected but still allow users to interact with slicers and pivots!

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Excel dashboards can be protected but still allow users to interact with slicers and pivots!

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Hey everybody! This is Dylan Felt (she/her) - I'm a research and evaluation Project Manager and Assistant Director of the EDIT Program at Northwestern University. I'm here today to talk about sex, baby! More specifically, I want to talk about how sex is a social category which is weaponized against transgender people, and how you can do something about it.
"Yeah, I get it already. Biological sex and gender are different, but they're both important, right?"
Wrong!

Where we choose to draw the borders of 'sex' is a subjective, human choice. It's also a political choice . The boundaries that we draw around bodies, and the meaning we assign to them, have political implications and purpose. Medical anthropologist Katrina Karkazis refers to this as "the gerrymandering of sex" ( Karkazis, 2019), and describes how sex gerrymandering is explicitly used to restrict the medical and social autonomy of transgender people and cisgender women. Historian Beans Velocci goes one step further and critiques sex itself as "ontologically incoherent." In other words, it isn't just sex classification that is a political project - it is the concept of "sex" itself. Sex isn't a biological reality which we're describing - it's a social idea with social consequences.
"It sounds like this is a pretty ideological stance you're taking. Are you sure you aren't just feeling worked up because you're trans?"
Thanks for asking, ghost of EvalTalk past! I hear your concerns, so I'll get this out of the way: nobody is saying human anatomy and biology aren't sometimes relevant in evaluation.

Here's what I am saying though: asking someone what their sex is isn't a sure-fire way to get at that anatomical/biological knowledge. For example, lots of women (cisgender and transgender), aren't biologically capable of pregnancy. Just because someone checks 'female' on a box doesn't mean you can assume that you understand that person's biological faculties. Available evidence indicates that, where biological characteristics associated with sex are relevant, it's better to just ask directly. Sex is an imperfect heuristic, so even if we were to set aside its political nature, critical use of the construct is still warranted.
"Okay, I guess I get that part, but I don't get what the political piece has to do with me?"
Look, I get it, but we can't just set aside the political implications. Across the United States, a wave of anti-transgender legislation has emerged, the vast majority targeting transgender youth. The bills range in scope, but they share a belief that sex is a biologically encoded reality which cannot and should not be changed. With that in mind, here are some I want you to walk away with:

Evaluation is not a field from which we can abdicate our social responsibilities. We don't evaluate from outside of society, we evaluate from within, and the work we do impacts the social ecosystem we inhabit.

Liberatory practice and rigorous inquiry go hand in hand, and to pretend otherwise is to give in to fallacious, fascist attacks on critical work.

We need to get serious about the ways in which the assumptions that underlie our data are reflective of, and contribute to, normative societal assumptions about sex that are regularly used to harm transgender people.

I'm not so foolish as to think that changing a question on a demographic form will quash the groundswell of anti-trans fascistic legislation. But I'm not so cynical as to think that what we do doesn't make a difference, either.

I'd like to think, if you've read to the end of this post, you're open to making that difference. I'm looking forward to working together!
The American Evaluation Association is hosting LGBT TIG Week with our colleagues in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues Topical Interest Group. The contributions all this week to AEA365 come from our LGBT TIG members. Do you have questions, concerns, kudos, or content to extend this AEA365 contribution? Please add them in the comments section for this post on the AEA365 webpage so that we may enrich our community of practice. Would you like to submit an AEA365 Tip? Please send a note of interest to AEA365@eval.org. AEA365 is sponsored by the American Evaluation Association and provides a Tip-a-Day by and for evaluators. The views and opinions expressed on the AEA365 blog are solely those of the original authors and other contributors. These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of the American Evaluation Association, and/or any/all contributors to this site.

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LGBT TIG Week: Sex-Critical Data for Evaluation by Dylan Felt

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Hey everybody! This is Dylan Felt (she/her) - I'm a research and evaluation Project Manager and Assistant Director of the EDIT Program at Northwestern University. I'm here today to talk about sex, baby! More specifically, I want to talk about how sex is a social category which is weaponized against transgender people, and how you can do something about it.

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Report 0 Nonbinary folks in the sample, even if no one used that response category to makes sure we are counting folks of all genders

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Report 0 Nonbinary folks in the sample, even if no one used that response category to makes sure we are counting folks of all genders

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If Robert Woods Johnson can reduce (eliminate!) narrative reporting, so can we!

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If Robert Woods Johnson can reduce (eliminate!) narrative reporting, so can we!

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Check ourselves before reporting: How could this be used to do harm?

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Check ourselves before reporting: How could this be used to do harm?

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Gotta get back to adding icons to help illustrate quote themes!

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Gotta get back to adding icons to help illustrate quote themes!

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Use alt text to make vis readable with screen readers and rather than describe picture, put tiny invisible data table under the graph so the screen reader will pick it up

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Use alt text to make vis readable with screen readers and rather than describe picture, put tiny invisible data table under the graph so the screen reader will pick it up

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How to make high impact data visualization right inside Excel along with real life case examples organizational culture change

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Who has a link to the GIS working group?

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Who has a link to the GIS working group?

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"Sketch mapping" is a great way to present a qualitative map, drawn by participants

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"Sketch mapping" is a great way to present a qualitative map, drawn by participants

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Which is great, since our relationship to space and place is so personal!

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Grantee reports could focus on learning about the work, rather than on proving the impact of a program

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Grantee reports could focus on learning about the work, rather than on proving the impact of a program

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Sex isn't a biologically observable fact, but rather a categorization system created socially, like gender!

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Sex isn't a biologically observable fact, but rather a categorization system created socially, like gender!