Evaluation for Program Planning & Decision-Making

Register for this webinar here!

Join Dr. Andrea Girón Mathern of Centrality Research to learn about tools that can help to integrate effective evaluation with a lens of cultural humility and relevance into your program planning and design! Already have a program up and running but want to be sure you are measuring toward the right outcomes? We can help you with that too - with a little “reverse engineering” we will share tools to help you identify what you want to measure and determine what success looks like.

This is the first webinar in a four-webinar series on Culturally Relevant Evaluation that is available at no cost to California library workers.

Please note that the webinars are 90 minutes in length and you need to register for each webinar separately. The webinars will be recorded.

To register for the additional webinars in the series and to access the recordings, go to https://www.library.ca.gov/services/to-libraries/ccl/webinars/.

Presenter Bio: Dr. Andrea Girón Mathern - Andrea believes that understanding your organization from the inside out is key to taking progressive steps forward and building momentum for the most impactful paradigm shifts. She is skilled in quantitative and qualitative research though is drawn to empowerment-based research practices such as participatory action research, participant-driven data collection, collaborative knowledge production, and integrated knowledge translation. She has a Ph.D. in Research and Evaluation Methods, and holds a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management. She has served as the co-lead on a large Museum initiative to transform 22,000 square feet into a dynamic visitor experience. As the former Director of the Community Research & Engagement Strategies Department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science she led evaluation and social science research efforts as well as served as the co-lead of the Living Our Values team which spearheads the Museum’s Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion efforts. She has led research and evaluation efforts for projects funded by the Colorado Health Foundation, NASA, The Institute of Museum and Library Services, and served as a Co-PI working with the inter-agency team of Metro Denver Urban Advantage funded by the National Science Foundation. She was appointed to the visiting professional scholar program with the Office of Policy and Analysis with the Smithsonian Institution in 2013.

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