Dr. Vidhya Shanker, PhD

Dr. Vidhya Shanker, PhD has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in September 2023. The social media accounts linked to from Dr. Vidhya Shanker, PhD are: LinkedIn, Email, Payment, X. Besides social media accounts, dr.vidhyashankerphd has populated their site with ■ The May 13 Group PODCAST, Subscribe to updates from The May 13 Group, Schedule time to meet with Vidhya/ Collective Knowledge Works, Why Is Evaluation So White? 10 Ways to Repair, Reverse, Redress & Regenerate from the Racialized Circulation of Capital (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations 2021 conference, invited short-talk), The Invisible Labor of Women of Color & Indigenous Women in Evaluation (EvalCentral invited 2020 unwebinar, based on AEA365 blog entry of the same name), ■ Why is Evaluation So White? (Center for Evaluation Innovation invited 2020 Evaluation Roundtable webinar, with Carolina De La Rosa Mateo and MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis), ■ Abolishing Carcerality & Whiteness In, Through, and Around Evaluation (American Evaluation Association annual conference, 2021 plenary, with Aisha Rios), Generative Conflict and Consciousness-Raising as an Alternative to "Do No Harm" in Evaluation (Western Michigan University Evaluation Center invited 2022 webinar, with Aisha Rios), Valuing the Experiences & Expertise on Both Sides of the Equation (Southeastern Council of Foundations 2020 Annual Meeting invited panel, with Campbell, Carpenter Drake, Patterson, & Webb), ■ Musings on promoting The May 13 Group PODCAST, ■ The Invisible Labor of Women of Color and Indigenous Women in Evaluation: Part 1 (2020 AEA365 blog entry), ■ The Invisible Labor of Women of Color and Indigenous Women in Evaluation: Part 2 (2020 AEA365 blog entry), Speaking Freely, No Longer in Code Thanks to Dr. Stafford Hood (2023 AEA365 blog entry), As Above, So Below; As Within, So Without (2021 AEA365 blog entry), Evaluation at a Crossroads: Time to Choose Who We Want To Be and How We Think (2021 AEA365 blog entry), A Look at Language Week: Tidying Evaluation of “Diversity” & “Culture” (2019 AEA365 blog entry), Applying Intersectionality to Program Theory: Gender-Based Violence & Violence Against Women: Part 2 (2019 AEA365 blog entry), What is Intersectionality and How Can Evaluators Do It? Part 1 (2018 AEA365 blog entry), On the Slipperiness of Culture (2017 AEA365 blog entry), Definitional Tension: The Construction of Race In and Through Evaluation (2019 dissertation), A legacy in three discourse shifts: Stafford Hood, culturally responsive evaluation, and the continual interrogation of and resistance against European/Euro‐settler colonial/capitalist hegemony in, through, and around evaluation, Culturally Responsive Evaluation: Critical and Liberatory Roots (2023; chapter 11, written with Rodney Hopson, invited by Evaluation Roots: Theory Influencing Practice by Alkin & Christie), Hauwezi kuvuka ziwa hadi uwe na ujasiri wa kutouona urefu wa pwani: Made in Africa Evaluation as Courageous Conversation (2022 peer-reviewed African Evaluation Journal article, with Antony Maikuri and Rodney Hopson), Decolonising Global Health Evaluation: Synthesis from a Scoping Review (2022 peer-reviewed PLOS Global Health article, with Pant, Khosla, Lama, AlKhaldi, El-Basuoni, Michel, Bitar & Nsofor), Voices of Decolonizing Evaluation Needs YOUR Voice (2022 AEA365 blog entry with Lopez, Lynn, Peak, Petillo, Rios & Wolf), "They are Intertwined": Harm and the M&E Cycle (2021 peer-reviewed research report, with Antony Maikuri), Doing No Harm with Technology in Evaluation: Part 2 (2021 AEA365 blog entry, with Antony Maikuri and Veronica Olazabal), Doing No Harm with Technology in Evaluation: Part 1 (2021 AEA365 blog entry, with Antony Maikuri and Veronica Olazabal), Can Evaluation Touch Your Heart? Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered Practice…and Feminism (2021 AEA365 blog entry, with Allison Shurilla), Shaking up the Evaluation Patriarchy: AEA Womanists/ Feminists Coming Together to Claim Power and Place in the Academy (2021 AEA365 blog entry, with Kathleen Doll and Libby Smith), Why is Evaluation so White? (2020 handout accompanying Center for Evaluation Innovation Evaluation Roundtable with the same name; with Carolina De La Rosa Mateo and MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis), A Place for Solitude, Community, and Healing for Attendees Who Identify as Indigenous, Black, and People of Color (IBPOC) at Evaluation 2019! (2019 AEA365 blog entry, with Taylor-Schiro/Bidabinikwe, Peoples, Peak, López-Justiniano & Verret), What Does it Take to Do Evaluation in Communities and Cultural Contexts Other Than Our Own? (2010 article in Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, with Nan Wehipeihana, Jane Davidson & Kate McKegg), Why is Evaluation So White? (2021 Google site accompanying GEO conference short-talk, prototyping the systems dynamics that (re)produce evaluation’s whiteness + the levers that could disrupt and redirect the racialized circulation of capital), The Power of Perspective: Generations of Evaluators Generating Change (2022 online version of installation featuring an interactive DEI journey map and people's history of evaluation), The Power of Perspective: Generations of Evaluators Generating Change (2022 AEA365 blog entry about installation at AEA annual conference, with Ayesha Boyce and Libby Smith), What is Your DEI Journey? What Shaped Your Ancestors’ Journeys? (2022 AEA365 blog entry on The Power of Perspective installation at the American Evaluation Association annual conference, with Diana Siegel-Garcia), The May 13 Group...The Next Day for Evaluation (budding website for emerging ecosystem oriented toward/ energized by epistemic healing & wholeness), Repair (and Infiltrate) the Canon: An Oral History Project (ongoing invitation to repair evaluation's canon by collecting oral histories of the more critical scholars and practitioners that the field has erased and silenced), Welcome to the Revolution! MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis (2021 AEA365 blog entry about MN-based organizing, with co-founders Tia Bastian, Carolina De La Rosa Mateo & Anne Gomez), Minnesota’s Constituent-led Organizations Represent! (2012 AEA365 blog entry), Pledge of Refusal to Profit Professionally from #wanels & #manels, Unearthing Evaluation’s Roots (2021 AEA365 blog entry about petition against Guilford Press, M. Alkin and C. Christie for continuing to erase evaluators who are indigenous to the Americas and/or women of color, with Camman, Lopez, Rios, Scott & Smith), Unearthing Evaluation Roots (2021 petition against Guilford Press, Marv Alkin, and Christina Christie for continuing to erase evaluators who are indigenous to the Americas and/or women of color, with Rios, Lopez, Camman, Scott & Smith), AEA's DEI Working Group: A Reintroduction (2023 AEA 365 blog post, with Nisaa Kirtman and Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro), AEA's DEI Working Group: Call for Applications! (2023 AEA 365 blog post, with Nisaa Kirtman and Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro), Introducing the American Evaluation Association’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Working Group (2022 AEA365 blog entry, with Nisaa Kirtman and Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro), A DEI Statement that Feeds Transformation In, Through, and Around Evaluation (2022 AEA365 blog entry, with Jen Heeg, Donna Mertens, Esther Nolton & Libby Smith), Statement from the American Evaluation Association Board of Directors Regarding Racism and Inequality in our Society (2021 statement contextualizing murders of 6 Asian/ Asian American women in Atlanta), Nexus Community Partners: 2023-25 Evaluation of Reclaiming Our Own Time (ROOT) Fund (with Trish Dao Tran/ Resonance Data Collective), Colorado Health Foundation: 2022-23 Evaluation of Adult Recovery Non-clinical Supports (with Anne Jin Son Preston/ Sahng Sahng and Kai Fierle-Hedrick/ Create Knowledge), The New York Community Trust: 2021-23 Evaluation of Mosaic Network & Fund (with Aisha Rios/ Coactive Change and Kai Fierle-Hedrick/ Create Knowledge), Social Justice as Ontology: The Intersection of Black Evaluators’ Identities, Roles, and Practice (2023 American Journal of Evaluation article by Boyce, Reid, Avent, Adetogun, Moller & Singletary that cites my work), Addressing Privilege Not Marginalization: Analysis of White Evaluators’ Perspectives on Privilege (2022 dissertation by Christopher M. Hall that cites my work), Strengthening Capacity for Equity in Evaluation Through Regional Networks (2023 AEA365 blog post by Emily Gates, Min Ma & Andres Castro Samayoa that cites my work), Archive of AEA365 Posts on Feminism (AEA365 blog post by Melissa Chapman that cites my work), Passing Generational Wisdom: Using Narrative and Oral History to Honor Legacies: Part 2 (2023 AEA365 blog post by Nisaa Kirtman and Ayesha Boyce that cites my work), ACE Evaluation Network Member Highlight (2022 profile on me), Patient Engagement in Healthcare Planning and Evaluation: A Call for Social Justice (2022 International Journal of Health Planning & Management article by Elizabeth Snow that cites my work), Going Beyond Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion to Engage Patients in a More Meaningful Way (2022 Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes blog post by Alison Müller that mentions my work), An Invitation to Explore the Universal Current of Life (2022 AEA365 blog post by Libby Smith that mentions me), Statement on Racist, Colonialist, and Misogynist Violence (2022 statement by Greater Boston Evaluation Network that cites my work), Why is Evaluation So White? (2022 personal blog post by Andi Fugard that cites my work), Relationship with My Own Maleness (2022 AEA365 blog post by Tom Kelly that cites my work), Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet (2021 book by Wendy K. Z. Anderson that cites my work), Thinking like a Sociologist (undated blog post by Chris Lysy that cites me), Evaluation is for Everyone (2021 blog post by C. Camman that cites my work), Why This Evaluator is for Abolition (2021 blog post by Aisha Rios that cites my work), Moving from an Evaluator Pipeline to an Evaluation Ecosystem (2021 AEA365 post by Kelly Hannum and Jara Dean-Coffey that cites my work), Tired Narratives about Talent in Evaluation (2021 AEA365 blog post by Clare Nolan that cites my work), picking up the mic and using my white privilege to elevate voices of people of color (2021 AEA365 blog post by Martha Brown that cites my work), how do we use our power/privilege to transform our field? (2021 AEA365 blog post by Libby Smith and Maddy Frey that cites my work), The Inherent Healing-Centered Nature of Trauma-Informed Care (2021 AEA365 blog post by Pamela “Denise” Long that cites my work), Transforming AEA: Activating our Power (2021 AEA365 blog post by Albertina Lopez and Florence Etta that cites my work), Utilization-Focused Evaluation (2021 edition of book by Michael Quinn Patton and Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton that cites my work), How Far Dare an Evaluator Go Toward Saving the World? Redux, Update, and a Reflective Practice Facilitation Tool (2021 American Journal of Evaluation article by Michael Quinn Patton that cites my work), Questions on Our Mind about Evaluation (2021 blog post by Leah Goldstein Moses, founder of the Improve Group, that cites my work), Evaluation Criteria for Evaluating Transformation: Implications for the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Global Climate Emergency (2020 American Journal of Evaluation article by Michael Quinn Patton that cites my work), Rules for Privileged Straight White Males—Utilization-Focused Evaluation (2020 Blue Marble Evaluation blog entry by Michael Quinn Patton that cites my work), Rules for Privileged Straight White Males: Dr. Andrea’s Rewrite (2020 open letter by Dr. Andrea Guerrero-Guajardo that mentions me, in response to Michael Q. Patton's Rules for Privileged Straight White Males; published by Chris Lysy), Anti-Racist #Eval (etc.) Work for White Folks Like Me (2020 personal blog post by Tom Archibald that refers to my work), APC Evaluators' Actions to Undo Racism and White Supremacy in our Field (2020 statement by American Evaluation Association's Advocacy & Policy Change Topical Interest Group that references my original call to action about White nationalism), Trying to Empower Female Evaluators To Stop Feeling Like Impostors (2020 AEA365 by Sara Vaca that mentions me), Evaluation is So White: Systemic Wrongs Reinforced by Common Practices and How to Start Righting Them (2020 report by Evaluators of Color Action Team and published by Funder & Evaluator Affinity Network that sort-of credits my work, albeit incorrectly), Why is Evaluation So White? Perspectives from Evaluators of Color (2020 blog post by Kim Ammann Howard and Fontane Lo, published by The James Irvine Foundation, that uses my words but fails to cite me or honor the criticality of my underlying framework), It’s Time to Let Go of Tired Narratives about Talent in Evaluation (2020 blog post by Engage R+D and published by Center for Evaluation Innovation's Evaluation Roundtable that cites my work), From Evaluation Theory Tree to Theory Forest (2023 Michael Quinn Patton video that includes my work), Evaluation Theorists' Integrated Practice (2023 Michael Quinn Patton video that includes my work), What Happens in New Orleans Does Not Stay in New Orleans (2022 video by Michael Quinn Patton that features The Power of Perspective installation at AEA's annual conference), Panorama of Evaluation Approaches (2022 Michael Quinn Patton video that briefly mentions my work), Radical (Re)imagining: Dr. Vidhya Shanker - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E6, What is Program Evaluation? The Importance of How We Define Evaluation (2020 James Pann podcast with Amy Gullickson, who mentions my work), The Oral History of Evaluation: The Professional Development of Marvin C. Alkin (2010 American Journal of Evaluation article, with Jean King, Melvin Mark & Robin Miller), On Lotuses and Suffering: The Importance of How Kamala Harris Introduced Herself to America (2020 American Kahani invited article), Taking Langar (2020 piece by Simi Kang that refers to my input in UnMargin, a website I co-edit that contributes to critical discussions and analysis of social justice issues from an intersectional Asian American perspective), Seeds of Dignity Sown on Childhood Dinner Plate (2011 Mix Twin Cities Natural Food Co-ops Publication article and recipe, written while very pregnant), Asia as Silent Soul in the West (1999 article by artist Jin Hi Kim based on an email conversation with me).