2024 Reflections
Early 2024 reflections on how I’m building space for grief, responsiveness, action, and accountability.
Tips for Hiring a Research Consultant to Support Your DEI Work
Incorporating research or evaluation into your DEI initiative can be incredibly valuable. We’re great at identifying sticking points, providing space for staff to feel more comfortable speaking up, and helping you take a step back when you’re wrapped up in the day-to-day.
However, bringing someone in to reiterate what staff have already been vocal about, ignoring well-documented trends, or hoping information alone will solve your problems without committing to taking action can be ineffective at best, and can often perpetuate the same problems.
“It’s not just activism, it’s our life work.”
Our collective healing relies on building communities of care, supporting organizations that are, and have been fighting and working in their communities, and finding as many ways as possible to make our activism our life work.
What Does Evaluation Have to do with Social Justice, Part 1
Read about our founder, Allison Shurilla’s, journey to evaluation. This post is the first in a series of articles focused on the intersections between evaluation and social justice and how we can use the tools it offers to support our missions and values.