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  • Monday, November 10, 2025
  • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION: Community-based, Shared Leadership Principles of Engagement (Day 1)
  • Tuesday, November 11, 2025
  • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    Transformative Mixed Methods Evaluation: Commitment to Equity, Community Engagement, and Shared Leadership
  • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    Dabbling in the Data: Hands-On Data Analysis Activities for Teams
  • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    Approaches to Evaluating Programs
  • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    Consulting 101: An introductory workshop for evaluators who want to start consulting practices
  • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION: Community-based, Shared Leadership Principles of Engagement (Day 2)
  • Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  • 8:00 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    PARADISE BY THE DASHBOARD LIGHT: A Crash Course in Power BI
  • 8:00 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Empowerment Evaluation: A Community Engagement Approach
  • 8:00 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Are you ready? Using Foresight to Future-Proof Your Evaluation Practice
  • 8:00 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Beyond Do No Harm: Implementing Trauma and Resiliency Informed Accessible Evaluation
  • 8:00 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Unleashing the Power of Power BI: Transforming Evaluation Data into Actionable Insights
  • 11:30 AM - 2:15 PM CST
    The Basics of Using Theory to Improve Evaluation Practice
  • 11:30 AM - 2:15 PM CST
    Project Monitoring and Evaluation Planning Using a Theory of Change: A Practical, Step-by-Step Guide
  • 11:30 AM - 2:15 PM CST
    From Data to Decisions: Practical Sensemaking Tools for Shared Understanding and Impactful Evaluation
  • 11:30 AM - 2:15 PM CST
    Deep Learning and Collaborative Evaluation: Tools, Ethics, and Opportunities in the Age of AI
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CST
    Opening Plenary Session: Bridging Evaluation and Foresight for Transformative Practice
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    A Data Storytelling Learning Collaborative: Creating an Environment for Peer Learning, Capacity Building, and Increasing Data Literacy Among Colorado Community-Based Organizations
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    A Framework for Evaluating Participatory Grantmaking
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Accessible Evaluation for All: Designing with Disability in Mind
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    AJE Publication Session

    Chair: Laura R. Peck, PhD – American Journal of Evaluation

    Panelist: Stewart I. Donaldson, Ph.D. – Claremont Graduate University

    Panelist: Shannon Hitchcock, PhD – American Journal of Evaluation, Abt Global

    Panelist: Michael A. Harnar, PhD – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation

  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Avengers, Assemble! Strengthening Evaluation Through Shared Leadership
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Becoming a Quality Journal Reviewer: Why It Matters and How to Excel
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Best Practices for Writing Strong Evaluation Plans for Grant Proposals
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Beyond Evaluation: Strengthening Evaluative Capacity through Participatory Approaches
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Breaking Barriers: Transforming the RFP and Contracting Processes
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Centering Community Voice to Influence Systems and Policy for Early Childhood Education
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Designing Databases, Shaping Practice: How Evaluation Technology Supports Program Clarity and Continuity
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Engaging Communities and Sharing Power in Decolonizing Evaluation
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Engaging Implementers, Strengthening Impact: Co-Creating an Impact Model Rooted in Implementers’ Insights
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    From Resistance to Relationship: Balancing Accountability and Voice in Statewide Behavioral Health Evaluation
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Integrating evaluation and the environment: Examples, challenges, and actions
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Interpersonal Skills Training to Foster Authentic Engagement: Lessons Learned from a Global Study of Young and Emerging Evaluators
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Rights-Based Approaches to Evaluation: Using Practice to Build Theory
  • 4:20 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Unifying Funders, Grantees, and Researchers in Shared Learning and Evaluation—Opportunities for Impact
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CST
    Poster Exhibit & Meet the Authors Reception
  • Thursday, November 13, 2025
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM CST
    Plenary Session: The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    "We're Going to the Courthouse and We're Getting an Injunction": How to Evaluate Litigation Within Broader Advocacy Campaigns
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    AI and (Empowerment) Evaluation: A Thought Partner, Bridge Builder, and Tool for Community Engagement
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Building a shared approach to climate finance impact measurement
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Causal Chain Monitoring: Assessing the Opportunities and Challenges of a New Methodology for Evaluating Impact
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Clients as Program and Evaluation Leaders: Lessons Learned from a Nonprofit in Shifting Power to Communities
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Collaborative Research Across Disciplines: Exploring Collaboration Between Evaluation and Market Research on a Large-Scale Initiative
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Empowering Arts Programs for Military-Connected Communities Through Evaluation, Technical Assistance, and Community Building
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Engaging Communities of Students with Autism: Analyzing the Impact of Robotics in Autism Spectrum Disorder Interventions Using Intensive Longitudinal Analysis and HLM

    Presenter: Mike Latessa

    Presenter: Karen H.Larwin, MPH, PHD

    Submitter: Karen H.Larwin, MPH, PHD

  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Four Types of Cost-Inclusive Evaluation and Nine Types of Findings: Which is Best?
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Ignite Session 1
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    New frontiers for evaluation policy: Collaborating on approaches to preserve and expand evaluation practice
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Reimagining Youth Justice Evaluation: A Community-Powered MEAL Approach
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Shaping the Future of New Directions for Evaluation: Inviting the New Voices
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Sharing Leadership Through Publishing: Unpacking the Hidden Curriculum of Evaluation Publishing
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    Theory of Resilient Transformation to Overcome Failures and Political Opposition
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM CST
    What’s new about AI? Emerging frameworks for designing, assessing, and evaluating AI tools and vendors and AI-enabled programs and evaluations
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Adventures with AI for Data Viz
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Amplify, Empower, Transform: The LEEAD Approach to Evaluation Leadership
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Building evaluation capacity in University Extension to better serve communities
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Collaborative Evaluation in Action: Sharing Leadership to Expand Access to Healthy Food for Families and Children in Denver, CO
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations Multipaper
    Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Embracing Community Responsiveness and Equity on Evaluation Teams: A Collective Journey Toward Inclusive Practices
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Engaging Rural STEM Programs With After Action Reviews (AARs)
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Evaluation or UX Research? Opportunities for Innovation, Collaboration, and Community Engagement
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Extension Education Multipaper Session
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Extension Evaluation Multipaper Session
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    For Evaluators Who Dare Save The World
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Harvesting Innovation: AI, Participation, and Visualizations in Outcome Harvesting
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Ignite Session 2
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Implementing and Adapting Evaluations In Complex, Shifting Environments
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Navigating Contested Waters: Teaching Evaluation for Social Change in Turbulent Times
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building Multipaper
    Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Real-Life Applications of Logic Models: Engaging Community, Sharing Leadership
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    The Community Action Hub at ICH: Engaging with PWLE through a Participatory Action Research model
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    Validity and Fairness of Assessment-based Information in Educational Evaluations: How Can “User-Centeredness” and “Stakeholder-Orientation” Help?
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
    What Now? A Roadmap for Emerging Evaluators in a Changing World
  • 12:40 PM - 1:25 PM CST
    Advocacy and Policy Change Annual Meeting
  • 12:40 PM - 1:25 PM CST
    Cluster, Multi-site and Multi-level Evaluation Annual Meeting
  • 12:40 PM - 1:25 PM CST
    Evaluation Managers and Supervisors Annual Meeting
  • 12:40 PM - 1:25 PM CST
    Independent Consulting Annual Meeting
  • 12:40 PM - 1:25 PM CST
    Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation Annual Meeting
  • 12:40 PM - 1:25 PM CST
    Needs Assessment Annual Meeting
  • 12:40 PM - 1:25 PM CST
    Program Theory and Theory-Driven Evaluation Annual Meeting
  • 12:40 PM - 1:25 PM CST
    Research on Evaluation Annual Meeting
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Assessment in Higher Education Annual Meeting
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Collaborative, Participatory & Empowerment Evaluation Annual Meeting
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Democracy and Governance Annual Meeting
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Feminist Issues in Evaluation Annual Meeting
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Graduate Students and New Evaluators Annual Meeting
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Integrating Technology into Evaluation Annual Meeting
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Leadership and Organizational Performance Annual Meeting
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender Issues Annual Meeting
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Research, Technology & Development Evaluation Annual Meeting
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Social Work Annual Meeting
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Systems in Evaluation Annual Meeting
  • 1:35 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Use and Influence of Evaluation Annual Meeting
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    A Walk Through the Garden of Evaluation Approaches: Uses for Teaching, Capacity Building, and Practice
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Before Boom: Lessons Learned from Evaluating a Targeted Violence / Terrorism Prevention Program

    Presenter: Denise Bulling, PhD, LiMHP

    Presenter: Stacey J. Hoffman, PhD

    Chair: Stacey J. Hoffman, PhD

    Presenter: Kurt Mantonya, MA

    Submitter: Stacey J. Hoffman, PhD

  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Centering Voices of the Community in Evaluation Design, Reporting, and Advocacy: Lessons from a Statewide Early Childhood Care and Education Needs Assessment

    Presenter: Adrienne McCarthy

    Presenter: Kristin Wright – Kansas State University - Office of Educational Innovation and Evaluation

    Presenter: Ian Cummings

    Presenter: Clarissa M. Corkins, Ph.D. – Kansas Child Care Training Opportunities, Kansas State University

    Submitter: Kristin Wright – Kansas State University - Office of Educational Innovation and Evaluation

  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Controversies in Implementing Evidence-Based Policies in Behavioral Health.
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Decolonizing Evaluation: Using an Equitable Evaluation Toolkit to Conduct Wide-Ranging Evaluations that Center BIPOC Needs and Voices
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Elevando Voces: Participants as Knowledge Holders Of Equitable Data Collection Efforts in the Southwest
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Engaging with Communities and Primary Care Practices: Evaluating CTR Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) models

    Chair: Mary Culnane, MSN, MS, PhD – University of Delaware

    Discussant: Sue Giancola, PhD – University of Delaware

    Presenter: Carlamarie Noboa Ramos, PhD – University of Puerto Rico

    Presenter: Alexandra Maree Mapp, MPH – ChristianaCare

    Presenter: Jonathan Baker, PhD – Chaminade University of Honolulu

    Presenter: Angela Sy, DrPh – University of Hawaii at Manoa

    Presenter: Kimber McKay, PhD – University of Montana

  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    How reporting can serve as a gateway for introducing MEL - a case from research infrastructure funding
    Presenter: Henrik B. Fosse, PhD (he/him/his) – Novo Nordisk Foundation
    Chair: Henrik B. Fosse, PhD (he/him/his) – Novo Nordisk Foundation
    Presenter: Gert Balling
    Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Ignite Session 3
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    JCSEE
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Landscape Collage: Crafting a Picture of the Evaluation Microsystem in the U.S.South
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Making Learning Stick: 3 Proven Training Strategies for Engagement and Retention
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Mixed Methods Evaluation Multipaper Session
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Research on Evaluation Multipaper
    Research on Evaluation
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Sales vs. Science: Impact Evaluation at a crossroads
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Testing the Waters: Getting Comfortable with AI Use in Evaluation
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Using Rich Context Mapping to Decode the Silicon Savannah by Making Healthcare Investments Equitable, Impactful and Accessible Across the Continent
  • 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CST
    Youth Focused Evaluation
    Youth Focused Evaluation
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Assessing Impact in Collaborative Efforts for Social Change
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Beyond Objectivity: Exploring Autoethnography as a Tool for Evaluation
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Collaborative Evaluation: Experiences and Lessons Learned
    Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Confronting hard truths about poverty: Evaluating narrative change impact for racial economic justice in the South
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Empowerment Evaluation and Stakeholder Involvement: Insights, Reflections, and Implications
    Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Engaging communities through participatory systems mapping to identify changes in the public health data ecosystem
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Ignite Session 4
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Intergenerational Perspectives on how Evaluation must ADAPT to meet the current moment
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Leadership and Organizational Performance Multipaper
    Leadership and Organizational Performance
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Localization and Capacity-Building: Empowering Local Partners Through Adaptive MERL Systems
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Member checking for participant ownership—and for fun!
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Open Databases and Misinterpretation: Balancing Access and Accuracy in the Age of Information/Digital World
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Out in the Open: A multi-state perspective on LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit data and how evaluators and researchers can support its collection
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Participatory Evaluation: Participants Engagement in the Evaluation Process
    Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Pathways to AEA Leadership: Getting Involved With AEA
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Relationship Building Among Collaborating Firms: Harnessing Shared Leadership to Empower Community Change
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Seeing Like an Organization: How to Avoid the Failures of Corrupting Measures
  • 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Using AI to Create Testing Personas for Survey Design in Dynamic Populations
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Arts, Culture, and Museums Multipaper
    Arts, Culture, and Museums
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Breaking the Mold: Solar Sister's Decentralized Approach to Environmental Sustainability
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Bridging the Evidence to Practice Gap: Engaging Practitioners in Participatory Evidence Reviews and Practice Guides
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Broadening the Lens of Evaluation: Approaches Supporting Inclusive STEM Education Environments
    STEM Education and Training
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Building Innovative Learning Systems in a Rapidly Scaling Family Foundation
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Catalytic Impact: How to Measure Indirect Contributions to System-Level Change | Lessons from a Global Development Community of Practice
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Cybersecurity Evaluation in Perspective: A Scoping Review of People, Process, and Technology
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    GEDI
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Harvesting Change: A Demonstration of Outcome Harvesting in Equity-Focused Leadership Development Evaluation
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Ignite Session 5
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Multipaper
    Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Interactive Methods for Evaluating Power and Decision-making in Intergenerational Organizations
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Logic models: Prioritizing process over product
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Mapping the field’s knowledge base: A bibliometric analysis of evaluation thought leaders, authorship patterns and profiles, and connections across scholar communities
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Preparing Students for Careers in Social Impact Design & Evaluation
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Reflective Analysis of an Evaluation of an Initiative Focused on Increasing Capital Access for Healthy Food Entrepreneurs of Color
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Reimagining Evidence: Ethical Innovation with Synthetic Data in Collaborative Evaluation
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Sharing Responsibility for Culturally Responsive Evaluation: Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) in a Community-Serving Nonprofit Organization
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CST
    Shifting Power in Evaluation: A Case Study Model for Nonprofit Learning
  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM CST
    Poster Exhibit, TIG Fair, & Reception
  • Friday, November 14, 2025
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Advancing Research Methods: Innovations in Measurement, Modeling, and Meta-Analysis
    Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Building Capacity and Shared Leadership to Advance Health Equity through the Rhode Island HEZ Training and Technical Assistance Program
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Building Evaluation Capacity Through AI-Enhanced Learning and Development Techniques
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics Multipaper
    Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Empowering Diverse Voices: Applications of Culturally Responsive Evaluation in Various Programs
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Engaging Community in Concepts of Program Fidelity and Implementation Evaluation
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Engaging Evaluation Communities, Sharing Leadership: Advancing Professional Practice through AEA’S Foundational Documents
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Eval Gals: A decade of shared leadership strategies in evaluation practice
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Gleaning Insights from Research on Evaluation (RoE) PhD Dissertations: Trends, Implications, and Future Directions
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    How to Center Humans in Evaluation: Practical guidance to embrace the complexity of human experience, benefit participants, and address program leader needs
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    In the blink of an eye: the crisis of international program evaluation amidst the impact of US foreign assistance terminations
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Interactive Approaches for Collaborative Decision-Making & Evaluation to Foster Authentic Engagement
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Needs Assessment Mulitpaper
    Needs Assessment
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Non Profit and Foundations Multipaper 2
    Nonprofit and Foundations
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Pigments + Power: Using Color Theory as a Strategy for Community-Led Storytelling
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Come and Co-create Recommendations with Me!
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    SECC
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Social Work Multipaper
    Social Work
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    The Learning Edge of Implementation: Developmental Evaluation in an Engineering Research Center
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    A Qualitative-Only, Joint Display-Facilitated Reverse Logic Analysis
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Advancing Methodology in Educational Evaluation
    Education Evaluation
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Community Needs Assessments Made Doable: Centering Voices, Driving Impact
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Engage. Share. Transform: Rethinking Institutional Effectiveness from the Inside Out
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Evaluators' Shared Responsibility to Engagement and Cultural Responsiveness: Then and Now
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Exploring emerging AI as subject and object in democracy-focused evaluation - Updating our shared perspective
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Fix My Dashboard!: Exploring Best Practices and Pitfalls in Dashboard Design
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    From Reactive to Proactive: How “Stand-by” Evaluators Can Enhance Organizational Learning and Adaptability
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Grounding Collective Impact in Black Feminist Epistemology: Reimagining Shared Leadership and Dismantling Power Dynamics
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Non Profit and Foundations Multipaper 1
    Nonprofit and Foundations
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Quant/Qual Café
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Racial Healing is Measurable: Perspectives from a Funder, External Evaluator, and Educator-Serving Nonprofit on Measuring the Impact of Racial Healing Programs
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Safe Stories: How to Tell Impactful Stories While Keeping Communities Safe
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    Systems In Evaluation Multipaper
    Systems in Evaluation
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    The Power of Partnership: Co-Designing an Evaluation Strategy for the Arts
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    The Recipe Approach to Cost-Inclusive Evaluation: Beyond Ingredients and Into Action! … Including Sustainability and Dissemination.
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    The Ripple Effect: Building Social Capital to Transform Organizational Culture
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CST
    When Gender Becomes Political: Feminist Evaluation in an Era of Polycrisis
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Accessible AI for Evaluation: Examples of Practical Applications
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    AI as a Catalyst for Qualitative Research: Reconciling Analytical Innovation with Ethical Responsibility
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Applications of AI in Support of Theory-Driven Evaluation

    Presenter: Charles Gasper, MS

    Chair: Charles Gasper, MS

    Presenter: Stewart I. Donaldson, Ph.D. – Claremont Graduate University

    Presenter: David M. Fetterman, Ph.D. – Fetterman & Associates

    Presenter: Jessica Renger – Kaiser Permanente

    Submitter: Charles Gasper, MS

  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Applying Participatory Evaluation Principles to Real-World Design, Implementation, and Dissemination: Examples from the Evaluation of the Richmond Fund for Children and Youth
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Evaluating College to Career Readiness by Engaging Various Communities
    Higher Education
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    From the Ground Up: Developing an Evalutation to Measure Success of a Program
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Graduate Students and New Evaluators Multipaper
    Graduate Students and New Evaluators
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Human Services Evaluation Multipaper
    Human Services Evaluation
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Internal Evaluation Multipaper
    Internal Evaluation
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Leveraging Program Evaluation for Cross-Organizational Collaboration and Decision-Making
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Meet the Editors! What is each evaluation journal about, how are journals amplifying and empowering new voices, and how can you contribute?
    Chair: Bianca Montrosse-Moorhead, Ph.D.
    Presenter: Laura R. Peck, PhD – American Journal of Evaluation
    Presenter: Mita Marra, PhD – University of Naples “Federico II”
    Presenter: Michael A. Harnar, PhD (he/him/his) – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation
    AEA Sponsored Sessions
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    New modalities for engaging AI as a stakeholder at the table
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    The Cross-Sector Health Equity Evaluation Framework (CHEEF): A Think Tank for Transformative Evaluation Practice
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Transforming climate action through evidence and learning: a multi-perspective invitation to action
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    Use of Evaluation: Why Management Matters
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
    We Are In This Together: Evaluating the Impact Of/On Community For Translational Research/Research Commercialization Programs

    Presenter: Josh Schnell – RTI, International

    Panelist: Rossana Zetina-Beale

    Panelist: Meaghan McGrath

    Discussant: Jeff Alexander

    Submitter: Josh Schnell – RTI, International

    Panelist: Marisa Eastman, MPH – RTI International

  • 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM CST
    Human Services Evaluation Annual Meeting
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM CST
    Birds of a Feather
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Advancement in Teaching Evaluation
    Teaching of Evaluation
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Amplify Local Voices: Facilitating Collaborative Evaluation Practice Across Multi-Level Complex Community-Based Initiatives
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Behavioral Health Multipaper
    Behavioral Health
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Beyond Tokenism: Youth PhotoVoice as Transformative Evaluation Method in Intergenerational Initiatives
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Building protected systems for effective evaluation advocacy and maintaining data integrity during rapid institutional change
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Design and Analysis of Experiments Multipaper
    Design and Analysis of Experiments
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Empowering the Community: A Demonstration of Participatory Methods that Reveal Potential and Facilitate Enabling Connections
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Health Evaluation Multipaper
    Health Evaluation
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    How to Avoid Divisive Politization of your Findings while Advancing Equity
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Innovative Approaches to Engaging Various Communities in Higher Education Evaluation
    Higher Education
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Learning Logs: The good, the bad, the ugly, and the one we’re excited to share about
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Lessons and implications on centering community and shared leadership in evaluation
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Mapping Impact: Applying Geospatial Tools for More Effective Program Evaluation
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Perspectives on Practicing Culturally Responsive Evaluation with Latina/o/e Communities

    Presenter: Lisa Aponte-Soto, PhD, MHA – Tanoma Consulting, LLC

    Chair: Lisa Aponte-Soto, PhD, MHA – Tanoma Consulting, LLC

    Presenter: Arthur E. Hernandez, PhD – University of the Incarnate Word

    Presenter: Ayesha Boyce, PhD

    Presenter: Alisha Garcia Flores – BECOME

    Presenter: Asma M. Ali, PhD – Loyola University Chicago

    Submitter: Lisa Aponte-Soto, PhD, MHA – Tanoma Consulting, LLC

  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Qualitative Methods Multipaper
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Rethinking Evaluation Education: Innovations from across the World
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Using Design Thinking to Improve the Client Intake Process
  • 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM CST
    Closing Plenary Session: Cultivating Curiosity: Collective Reflection and Leading the Future of Evaluation
  • 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM CST
    AEA Send-OFF Celebration