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Full Schedule

  • 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