Doing Evaluation in Service of Racial Equity is a three-part series of practice guides that show how to incorporate racial equity as a core value into evaluation. This is a crosspost from Every Child Thrives.

Keys to DEI Measurement Success

Great achievements are not born from a single vision but from the combination of many distinctive viewpoints. Diversity challenges assumptions, opens minds, and unlocks our potential to solve any problems we may face. - Source Unknown

Data System Readiness Tool

This tool was designed to assess a collective’s readiness to implement a shared measurement system to achieve its measurement goals.

Resources for Systems Thinking & Measuring Complex Change

In an effort to facilitate direct access to resources that can help anyone, data2insight gathers content and tools from diverse sources. Browse this powerful collection of links to books, documents, and websites.

Resources for Data Capture, Curation, Analysis & Visualization

In an effort to facilitate direct access to resources that can help anyone, data2insight gathers content and tools from diverse sources. Browse this powerful collection of links to books, documents, and websites.

Resources for Evidence Based Leadership & Practical Performance Measurement

In an effort to facilitate direct access to resources that can help anyone, data2insight gathers content and tools from diverse sources. Browse this powerful collection of links to books, blogs, documents, and white papers.

STEM Education and Workforce Development Data Collection and Analysis Tools

The American Evaluation Association’s STEM Topical Interest Group is building a repository of STEM evaluation resources. The repository aims to consolidate new knowledge from STEM evaluation experts in AEA, while also identifying and linking to existing repositories to avoid duplication of effort.

STEM Career & Education Resources

In an effort to facilitate direct access to resources that can help anyone to pursue an education or career in STEM, data2insight gathers content and tools from diverse sources. Browse this powerful collection of resources.

Shining a Light on LGBTQ+ Professionals in STEM

This work has highlighted an issue that is personal for Veronica Smith: LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual) folks are nearly invisible in the efforts to diversify STEM education and the STEM workforce in the United States.

Evaluators as True Partners in Dismantling White Supremacy and Creating a More Equitable and Just Society

Cynthia Roberts, Veronica Smith and Martina Todaro share a few ideas for how evaluators can be equitable and culturally responsive in their approaches, and one example of how these practices are used in our work.

Restruct Built Environment Research Symposium: Designing, Building, and Sustaining Learning Communities

Data2insight founder, Veronica S. Smith, provided the closing keynote address at the University of Arizona (UA) Restruct Built Environment Research Symposium: Designing, building, and sustaining multicultural learning communities. She shared her thoughts on how multicultural team science is vital to creating multicultural learning communities and building resilient communities around the world.

Building Diverse and Inclusive Teams

Building and retaining diverse and inclusive teams is no longer simply desirable — it’s become a must-have for both large and small companies.

Virtual Roundtable: Anti-Racism for Allies

HUB International hosted a virtual roundtable to engage Washington State business executives, HR professionals, and employees in a discussion about how they could lean in on issues of race and racism in the workplace.

Reducing Bias in Data and People

Veronica S. Smith was invited by PayScale to discuss two issues their company focuses on daily: 1) reduction of bias in data and people to improve their company’s multiculturalism; and, 2) increased success with transforming compensation data into transparent, actionable knowledge that is mutually beneficial for employees, employers, and clients.

Focusing Sessions: Stakeholder Engagement and Evaluation Design Method

Data2insight founder Veronica Smith and strategic partner Antonella Guidoccio presented at the 2018 European Evaluation Society conference in Thessaloniki, Greece. We provide here information and resources to download from their round table sessions.

Leveraging Mentorships, Sponsorships, and Internships for STEM Career Success

This workshop for the 2018 UW Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) conference was designed to engage people in high school, college and early STEM careers. This discussion covers how to achieve STEM career goals faster and easier by 1) understanding best mentoring, internship, and sponsor practices and 2) strategically connecting and building mutually beneficial relationships with excellent professionals along the way.

Dashboarding Field Guide Literature Review Highlights & Stakeholder Engagement and Evaluation Design Tool

For those interested in Veronica’s work on dashboarding and focusing sessions, her 2016 American Evaluation Association conference presentations and handouts are available here for download.

Engaging Teachers in STEM Curriculum and Assessment Development

Data2insight worked with Washington Global Health Alliance (WGHA), a consortium of research universities and non-profit organizations, on the evaluation of an interdisciplinary curriculum program called Ambassadors. WGHA Ambassadors aims to give high school students a well-rounded perspective of global health and how global health challenges need to be met by creative new ideas.