Presidential Strand Presentations

Aligning with the Evaluation 2025 conference theme of “Engaging Communities, Sharing Leadership", Presidential Strand sessions will reflect on fostering inclusive dialogue, co-creating knowledge, and driving meaningful transformation.

Wednesday, November 12

Data to Dialouge: Reclaiming Evaluation as a Community Practice

4:20 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.

Thursday, November 13

"We're Going to the Courthouse and We're Getting an Injunction": How to Evaluate Litigation Within Broader Advocacy Campaigns

10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

Disabilities and Underrespresented Populations Mulitpaper

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Using Rich Context Mapping to Decode the Silicon Savannah by Making Healthcare Investments Equitable, Impactful and Accessible Across the Continent

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Out in the Open: A Multi-State Perspective on LGBTQIA+ and Two-Spirit Data and How Evaluators and Researchers Can Support Its Collection

3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Harvesting Change: A Demonstration of Outcome Harvesting in Equity-Focused Leadership Development Evaluation

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Friday, November 14

The Learning Edge of Implementation: Developmental Evaluation in an Engineering Research Center

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

From Reactive to Proactive: How "Stand-by" Evaluators Can Enhance Organizational Learning and Adaptability

9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

A Continuing Conversation: Indigenous Evaluators on What Matters Now

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Beyond Tokensim: Youth PhotoVoice as Transformative Evaluation Method in Intergenerational Initatives

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.