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Title: Amplifying the personal and the conditional in evaluating racial equity change at the organizational level
In this roundtable session, we will share what we have learned about understanding, documenting, and measuring transformation and translation in the WTRE model. We encourage session attendees to share their experiences evaluating related models that ask people to draw on deeply personal experiences and understandings to effect change with others at the organizational or collaborative levels. We will focus on internal processes, such as how people integrate concepts into their understanding of the self and relationships, conditional features like decision-making and change management processes, and cultural-political environments. We will highlight how engaging and amplifying diverse voices across the organization shapes our understanding of the transformational power of models such as WTRE, and how “translational” aspects of the model can extend or limit access to these voices. We hope that session attendees will leave with resources, ideas, and connections that can help extend how we engage voices beyond program participants to understand how individual transformations and experiences contribute to and reflect organizational changes that must arise simultaneously across personal, interpersonal, and structural levels.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2005829
PAR ID:
10561203
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
American Evaluation Association
Date Published:
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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