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The American Evaluation Association is devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. We strive to provide an inclusive and diverse environment where evaluators can learn and connect regardless of experience in the field.
Community
Community
AEA brings together evaluation professionals from diverse backgrounds and specialties. Through our diverse membership, communities, and partnerships, AEA creates collaboration opportunities that advance the field of evaluation.
Education & Programs
Education & Programs
Use the evaluation tools and education developed by the American Evaluation Association to become a better evaluator. We provide year-round opportunities to advance in the field of evaluation and programs to support the development of evaluation professionals.
Events
Events
AEA offers two in-person events each year. These powerful, impactful events provide evaluators of all levels the education and networking opportunities they need to stay informed about and connected to their field.
Publications
Publications
AEA offers both member exclusive and free publications that help guide best practices in the field of evaluation and provide insights to evaluation theory, approach, methodology, and delivery.
Policy Advocacy
Policy Advocacy
AEA brings together researchers, evaluators, policy writers, and organizational leaders for meaningful dialogue around the need for and impact of evaluation policies. We seek to improve government programs and their societal impact through evaluation and data best practices.

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About
About
The American Evaluation Association is devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. We strive to provide an inclusive and diverse environment where evaluators can learn and connect regardless of experience in the field.
Community
Community
AEA brings together evaluation professionals from diverse backgrounds and specialties. Through our diverse membership, communities, and partnerships, AEA creates collaboration opportunities that advance the field of evaluation.
Education & Programs
Education & Programs
Use the evaluation tools and education developed by the American Evaluation Association to become a better evaluator. We provide year-round opportunities to advance in the field of evaluation and programs to support the development of evaluation professionals.
Events
Events
AEA offers two in-person events each year. These powerful, impactful events provide evaluators of all levels the education and networking opportunities they need to stay informed about and connected to their field.
Publications
Publications
AEA offers both member exclusive and free publications that help guide best practices in the field of evaluation and provide insights to evaluation theory, approach, methodology, and delivery.
Policy Advocacy
Policy Advocacy
AEA brings together researchers, evaluators, policy writers, and organizational leaders for meaningful dialogue around the need for and impact of evaluation policies. We seek to improve government programs and their societal impact through evaluation and data best practices.

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About
About
The American Evaluation Association is devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation. We strive to provide an inclusive and diverse environment where evaluators can learn and connect regardless of experience in the field.
Community
Community
AEA brings together evaluation professionals from diverse backgrounds and specialties. Through our diverse membership, communities, and partnerships, AEA creates collaboration opportunities that advance the field of evaluation.
Education & Programs
Education & Programs
Use the evaluation tools and education developed by the American Evaluation Association to become a better evaluator. We provide year-round opportunities to advance in the field of evaluation and programs to support the development of evaluation professionals.
Events
Events
AEA offers two in-person events each year. These powerful, impactful events provide evaluators of all levels the education and networking opportunities they need to stay informed about and connected to their field.
Publications
Publications
AEA offers both member exclusive and free publications that help guide best practices in the field of evaluation and provide insights to evaluation theory, approach, methodology, and delivery.
Policy Advocacy
Policy Advocacy
AEA brings together researchers, evaluators, policy writers, and organizational leaders for meaningful dialogue around the need for and impact of evaluation policies. We seek to improve government programs and their societal impact through evaluation and data best practices.

Topical Interest Groups

Topical Interest Groups (TIGs) are subgroups of the association comprised of members with common interests. TIGs may be formed around methodologies such as Needs Assessment, around work contexts such as Government Evaluation, around salient concerns such as Feminist Issues, or around professional status such as Independent Consultants. AEA currently supports 60+ TIGs in their pursuit of evaluation best practices within their topic area.

AEA members who are actively involved in TIGs receive greater value out of their membership. The TIG community is valuable way to remain connected to a topic, specialty, or methodology while working independently to improve programs. In addition, TIGs help the AEA education team build the Evaluation Conference schedule, giving TIGs real influence in the teaching of evaluation.

Although there is no limit of how many TIGs you can join, we recommend you limit your membership to five in order to maintain appropriate involvement.

To join a TIG, log on to your AEA account and update your profile with your TIG preferences here.
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Advocacy and Policy Change
Chair	Sarah Stachowiak ORS Impact
Co-chair	Kat Athanasiades Center for Evaluation Innovation
Program Chair	Dawn Valentine Variable Scoop
Arts, Culture, & Museums
Chair	Marcel Foster (they/them) University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine
Co- Chair	Justin Laing (he/him) Hillombo, LLC
Program Chair	Rachael Jenison (she/her) NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, City Service Corps Member
Program Co-chair	Patti Saraniero (she/her) Moxie Research
Assessment in Higher Education
Chair	Chad Kee WhitworthKee Consulting
Co-Chair	Amy Bowser University of Pittsburgh
Program Chair	Fanni Fargo George Mason University
Webmaster	Matt Feldmann Goshen Education Consulting Inc.
Behavioral Health
Chair	Elizabeth Oyer EvalSolutions, Inc.
Co-Chair	S vetlana Yampolskaya University of South Florida
Program Chair	Elizabeth Evans Central Michigan University
Program Co-Chair	Shannon Campbell Comagine Health
Cluster, Multi-site & Multi-level Evaluation
Chair & Program Chair	Jenica Reed Deloitte Consulting
Collaborative, Participatory & Empowerment Evaluation
Chair	David Fetterman Fetterman & Associates
Co-chair	Liliana Rodriguez-Campos University of South Florida
Program Chair	Connie Walker-Egea University of South Florida
Program Co-chair	Michael Mitchell Florida Southwestern State College
College Access Programs
Chair	Eva Chavez Promesa Boyle Heights
Co-chair	Rebecca Garvoille American Indian College Fund
Program Chair	Nadav Atik Matriculate
Community Development
Chair	Ivonne Chand O'Neal MUSE Research
Co-Chair	Samantha Shaak Leonard Parker Pool Institute for Health
Program Chair	Colin Braman MUSE Research
Community Psychology
Chair	Jonathan Scaccia Dawn Chorus Group
Co-Chair & Program Chair	Brittany Cook Wandersman Center
Costs, Effectiveness, Benefits, & Economics
Chair	Brian Yates American University
Program Chair	Nadini Persaud University of the West Indies
Program Co-chair	Ruqayyah Abu-Obaid Western Michigan University
Crime and Justice
Chair & Program Chair	Billie-Jo Grant Macmillan Learning / Cal Poly State University
Data Visualization & Reporting
Chair	Deven Wisner Viable Insights
Co-chair	Najat Elgeberi University of Nevada, Reno
Program Chair	Jessie Rouder ICF
Program Co-Chair	Shelly Engelman
Democracy & Governance
Chair	Laura Adams Pact World
Co-chair	Jerim Obure International Justice Mission (IJM)
Program Chair	Zack Medow Eurasia Foundation
Program Co-Chair	Jeanette Tocol ABAROLI
Design & Analysis of Experiments
Chair	Carl Westine University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Co-Chair	Keith Zvoch University of Oregon
Program Chair	Stephen Bell NORC at the University of Chicago
Program Co-chair	Anthony Gambino University of Connecticut
Disabilities & Underrepresented Populations
Chair	Caitlyn Bukaty UMass Boston, Institute for Community Inclusion
Disaster & Emergency Management Evaluation
Chair & Program Chair	Phung Pham Claremont Graduate University
Co-chair & Program Co-chair	Catherine Denial Dartmouth College
Distance Education & Other Educational Technologies
Chair & Program Chair	William Carpenter University of South Florida
Environmental Program Evaluation
Chair	Allison Van McMaster University
Program Chair	Rupanwita Gupta Rupu Gupta Consulting
Program Co-Chair	Greta Landis University of Wisconsin-Madison
Evaluation Managers & Supervisors
Chair	Nicolle Dally Deloitte
Co-Chair	Beryl Otumfuor Atlanta Speech School
Program Chair	Cindy Shuman, Ph.D. Research and External Funding
Evaluation Policy
Chair	Leslie Fierro McGill University - Max Bell School of Public Policy
Co-chair	Alana Kinarsky UCLA School of Education
Program Chair	Esther Nolton Patient-Centered Outcomes Institute
Extension Education Evaluation
Chair	LaJoy R. Spears New Mexico State University
Program Chair	Virginia Brown University of Georgia
Feminist Issues in Evaluation
Chair	Melissa Chapman
Co-chair	Kathryn A. Sielbeck-Mathes
Program Chair	Kirsten Azeiter
Government Evaluation
Chair	Steven Lize Civil Rights Law Firm
Program Chair	Paul Lagunes Guidehouse
Program Co-chair	Kelly Zimmerman Guidehouse
Graduate Education Diversity Internship
Chair & Program Chair	Nnenia Campbell The Bill Anderson Fund
Graduate Students & New Evaluators
Chair & Program Chair	Crystal Luce University of Colorado - Denver
Co-Chair	Michelle Crosby Independent Consultant
Program Co-Chair	Christine Liboon UCLA
Health Evaluation
Chair	Amy Kerr Professional Data Analysts
Program Chair	Jenica Reed Deloitte
Program Co-Chair	Karen Kun CDC
Health Professions Education, Evaluation & Research
Chair	Patrick Barlow, PhD The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Human Services Evaluation
Chair & Program Chair	Mansoor Kazi Fredonia State University of New York
Co-chair	Anna C. Gersh, Ph.D Eastern Michighan University
Independent Consulting
Chair	Mindelyn Anderson Mirror Group, LLC
Program Chair	Jessica Pugil Working Partner, LLC
Program Co-Chair	Nathan Browning Kiaer Research
Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation
Chair	January O'Connor Raven's Group
Program Chair	Alexandria Jauregui-Dusseau Center for Community Engaged Evaluation in the UAMS Office of Community Health and Research
Program Co-Chair	Melanie Nadeau, PhD, MPH Department of Indigenous Health, School of Medicine and Health Sciences University of North Dakota
Integrating Technology into Evaluation
Chair	John Baek NOAA
Co-chair	Diamond St. Thomas Facets Consulting
Program Chair	John Michael Bamberger International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
Internal Evaluation
Chair	Boris B Volkov University of Minnesota
Program Chair	Danelle Marable Beth Israel Lahey Health
Program Co-Chair	Eva Maria Chavez Promesa Boyle Heights
International & Cross Cultural Evaluation
Chair	Christine Bowles Last Mile Health
Program Chair	Alysson Oakley Pact
Program Co-Chair	Sharon Dorcoo Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
LatinX Responsive Evaluation Discourse
Chair	Alisha Garcia Flores Enlace Chicago
Leadership & Organizational Performance
Chair	Alissa Jones Wilder Research
Co- Chair	Theodore Theoharis BronxWorks
Program Chair	Abdulsamad Humaidan University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Program Co-Chair	Eva Maria Chavez Promesa Boyle Heights
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues
Chair	Dylan Felt Northwestern University
Co-chair	Alexandra Bauer Sherwood Foundation
Program Chair	Esrea Perez-Bill Northwestern University
Program Co-chair	Amy Lippincott TCC Group
Military & Veterans
Chair	Rhodri Dierst-Davies Deloitte Consulting
Program Chair	Matthew Beymer General Dynamics Information Technology
Mixed Methods Evaluation
Chair	Jenna LaChenaye, Ph.D. University of Alabama at Birmingham
Program Chair	Jennifer Ridgeway, Ph.D. Mayo Clinic
Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation
Chair	Darla Scott
Co-chair	Christopher Hall University of North Georgia
Needs Assessment
Chair	Lisle Hites University of Alabama
Program Chair	Maurya West Meiers World Bank
Program Co-chair	Hsin-Ling "Sonya" Hung Virginia Commonwealth University
NonProfit & Foundations
Chair	Emily Kalnicky, Ph.D. Partnership for Public Services
Co-chair	Israel Chora The People Concern
Program Chair	Eva Chavez Promesa Boyle Heights
Program Co-chair	Rhonda Williams, Ph.D. Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas
Organizational Learning & Evaluation Capacity Building
Chair	Cheryl Endres Kaleidoscope Evaluation, LLC
Co-chair	Marcela Gutierrez Gutierrez Consulting Partnerships, LLC
Program Chair	Ann Marie Castleman Claremont Graduate University
Program Co-Chair	Maria Selde USAID Zemitek contractor
PreK-12 Educational Evaluation
Chair	George Chitiyo Tennessee Tech University
Co-Chair	David Osman Gibson Consulting Group
Program Chair	Jenna LaChenaye The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Program Co-Chair	Kinsey Simone Tennessee Tech University
Program Design
Co-chair	Asma Ali AA & Associates, LLC
Program Chair	Catherine Nameth DGSOM at UCLA
Program Theory & Theory-Driven Evaluation
Chair	Stewart Donaldson Claremont Graduate University
Program Chair	Charles Gasper TCC Group
Qualitative Methods
Chair	Nandita Chaudhuri Public Policy Research Institute, Texas A&M University
Quantitative Methods: Theory & Design
Chair	Antonio Olmos Aurora Research Institute
Co-chair	Vajeera Dorabawila NYS Depart of Health
Program Chair	Karen H. Larwin Youngstown State University
Program Co-Chair	Haiyan Bai University of Central Florida
Research on Evaluation
Chair	Esther Nolton Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Program Chair	Rebecca M. Teasdale University of Illinois at Chicago
Program Co-chair	Rachael Kenney Veterans Health Administration
Research, Technology & Development Evaluation
Chair	Robin M. Wagner National Institutes of Health
Co-chair	Joshua Schnell Clarivate
Program Chair	Gavin Reddick ResearchFish
Program Co-chair	Di Cross National Institutes of Health
Social Impact Measurement
Chair	H eather Esper The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan
Program Chair	Sara Stalland McGarraugh The Improve Group
Social Network Analysis
Chair & Program Chair	Gregory Phillips II Northwestern University
Social Work
Chair	Mansoor A. F. Kazi Fredonia State University of New York
Program Chair	Tamarah Moss Bryn Mawr College
Program Co-Chair	Aaron Kates Independent Evaluation Consultant
STEM Education & Training
Chair	Tom Withee Goshen Education Consulting
Co-chair	Melissa Demetrikopoulos Institute of Biomedical Philosophy
Program Chair	Angelicque Tucker Blackmon Innovative Learning Center
Program Co-Chair	Asia Williams National Science Foundation
Systems in Evaluation
Chair	Kim Norris American Institute for Research
Co-Chair	Brittany Demberger CARE USA
Program Chair	Tze-Chang Liu National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Program Co-chair	Pragati Godbole EnCompass LLC
Teaching of Evaluation
Chair	Kelly McGinn Temple University
Co-Chair	Krisanna Machtmes Ohio University
Program Chair	Cindy Shumabn Kansas State University
Program Co-Chair	Seema Mahato Washington University in Saint Louis
Theories of Evaluation
Chair	John LaValle University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Program Chair	Jennifer Billman HACC, Central Pennslyvania Community College
Translational Research Evaluation
Chair	Elias Samuels University of Michigan
Program Chair	Anna Perry Wake Forest University
University-Based Centers
Chair	Jessica Osborne University of Mississippi
Program Chair	Bradley Watts University of Western Michigan
Program Co-Chair	Laran Despain University of Wyoming
Use & Influence of Evaluation
Chair	Susan Tucker
Youth Focused Evaluation
Chair	Julie Poncelet At the Corner of Learning & Action
Program Chair	Jimmy Frickey Trent University
Program Co-chair	Lexis Manzara Peer Health Exchange, Inc.