Radical (Re)imagining

A show about our collective vision for being more human in our work lives. For evaluators, academics, researchers, and other people in the information economy.

The OTHER Erin Gilmore - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E9 10/24/2022

The OTHER Erin Gilmore - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E9 The OTHER Erin Gilmore - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E9 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts , , & are joined by Erin Gilmore, yes – our second Erin Gilmore. Listen to hear the story! This Erin is a San Francisco-based yoga, meditation, and breathwork teacher with a unique modern style and specialty in trauma-informed yoga. She describes her teaching style as Pilates meets dance meets yoga. This year we’ve chosen to focus a little less on how the work gets done and a little more on who we are in the work. That translates to ongoing attention to how we’re showing up and purposeful self-examination. We hope our conversations and guests inspire you to do just that. We discussed the following resources: Try some with Erin Find meditation and breathwork with Erin on the Erin learned about with that got Libby & Deven through the early part of the pandemic We also mentioned Elizabeth Grim’s work on . Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or tweet at us. On the web: On Twitter: You can also send feedback and ideas for future topics/guests to us at radical.reimagining@gmail.com /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/24774279

Dr. Janel Seeley - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E8 09/26/2022

Dr. Janel Seeley - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E8 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts , , & are joined by Dr. Janel Seeley, Director of the Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. We discuss the unique challenges for educators in Higher Education over these past few years as well as Janel’s important work in Collaborative Communication. This year we’ve chosen to focus a little less on how the work gets done and a little more on who we are in the work. That translates to ongoing attention to how we’re showing up and purposeful self-examination. We hope our conversations and guests inspire you to do just that. We discussed the following resources: INSERT links here Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or tweet at us. On the web: On Twitter: On You Tube: You can also send feedback and ideas for future topics/guests to us at radical.reimagining@gmail.com /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/24481902

Erin Gilmore - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E7 09/12/2022

Erin Gilmore - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E7 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts is joined by Erin Gilmore, Associate Conference Minister for the Rocky Mountain Conference United Church of Christ. Her work is essentially internal organizational development. Libby & Erin journeyed together in the 16 month . This conversation happened just days after Erin completed a three month sabbatical and we reflect on her transition back into her organizational space. This year we’ve chosen to focus a little less on how the work gets done and a little more on who we are in the work. That translates to ongoing attention to how we’re showing up and purposeful self-examination. We hope our conversations and guests inspire you to do just that. We discussed the following resources:: by Priya Parker by adrienne maree brown Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or tweet at us. On the web: On Twitter: On You Tube: You can also send feedback and ideas for future topics/guests to us at radical.reimagining@gmail.com /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/24336216

Dr. Vidhya Shanker - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E6 08/22/2022

Dr. Vidhya Shanker - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E6 Dr. Vidhya Shanker - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E6 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts , & are joined by , PhD, is an interdependent and interdisciplinary evaluation practitioner, scholar, organizer, and activist. Using an intersectional paradigm, her research bridges critical theories of systemic oppression with systems thinking to examine how racialized difference is constructed in and through evaluation. She puts the result of that research into practice to interrogate, identify, and articulate the processes that reinforce—and disrupt—oppressive power dynamics in, through, and around evaluation and the racially stratified industries that use its services. This year we’ve chosen to focus a little less on how the work gets done and a little more on who we are in the work. That translates to ongoing attention to how we’re showing up and purposeful self-examination. We hope our conversations and guests inspire you to do just that. We discussed the following resources: Learn more about the May 13th Group and the rest of Vidhya’s work . Readings from Readings from Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or tweet at us. On the web: On Twitter: On You Tube: You can also send feedback and ideas for future topics/guests to us at radical.reimagining@gmail.com /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/24124953

Nora Murphy Johnson & A. Rafael Johnson - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E5 07/21/2022

Nora Murphy Johnson & A. Rafael Johnson - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E5 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts , , & are joined by Nora Murphy Johnson and A. Rafael Johnson (Andy), co-founders of out of Minneapolis, MN, they are practitioners of Creative Evaluation - an approach that weaves together developmental, principles-focused and arts-infused evaluation to create social change. This year we’ve chosen to focus a little less on how the work gets done and a little more on who we are in the work. That translates to ongoing attention to how we’re showing up and purposeful self-examination. We hope our conversations and guests inspire you to do just that. Nora & Andy offered the following resources: The Inspire to Change Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or tweet at us. On the web: On Twitter: On You Tube: You can also send feedback and ideas for future topics/guests to us at radical.reimagining@gmail.com /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/23810276

Dr. Silvia Bettez - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E4 04/18/2022

Dr. Silvia Bettez - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E4 Dr. Silvia Bettez - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E4 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts , & are joined by Dr. Silvia Bettez. Dr. Bettez teaches about issues of social justice in the Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations Department here with me (Tiffany) at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her scholarship centralizes social justice with a focus on fostering critical community building, teaching for social justice, and promoting equity through intercultural communication and engagement. This year we’ve chosen to focus a little less on how the work gets done and a little more on who we are in the work. That translates to ongoing attention to how we’re showing up and purposeful self-examination. We hope our conversations and guests inspire you to do just that. Silvia offered the following resources on politicized somatics: And her own article on Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or tweet at us. On the web: On Twitter: On You Tube: You can also send feedback and ideas for future topics/guests to us at radical.reimagining@gmail.com /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/22813331

Dr. Z Nicolazzo - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E3 03/15/2022

Dr. Z Nicolazzo - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E3 Dr. Z Nicolazzo - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E3 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts , , & welcome , Associate Professor of Trans* Studies in Education at the Center for the Study of Higher Education. Z's research explores how discourses of gender pervade and mediate college environments, with particular attention paid to trans people. Z has two forthcoming books mentioned in the podcast: : In-Relations Methodological Practice, Edited by Amanda Tachine and Z Nicolazzo : Trans Students Exploring Future Possible Selves Online, by Z Nicolazzo, Alden C. Jones, Sy Simms The group discussed the onslaught of anti-trans legislation, you can read up on that and . As well as this from 2021 by Z and co-author Harper B. Keenan. Finally, we referred to this that discusses the concept of hospicing institutions that have failed us. de Oliveira Andreotti, V., Stein, S., Ahenakew, C., & Hunt, D. (2015). Mapping interpretations of decolonization in the context of higher education. Decolonization: Indigeneity, education & society, 4(1). Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or tweet at us. On the web: On Twitter: On You Tube: You can also send feedback and ideas for future topics/guests to us at radical.reimagining@gmail.com /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/22443803

Tenneson Woolf - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E2 02/12/2022

Tenneson Woolf - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E2 Tenneson Woolf - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E2 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts , , & welcome , a facilitator, teacher, coach, circle host, and poet. This year our conversations will focus on who we are in the work and how we make moves towards showing up as our full human selves in the work. Tenneson is also a host (with Quanita Roberson) of the 18-month and the . Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or tweet at us. On the web: On Twitter: On You Tube: You can also send feedback and ideas for future topics/guests to us at radical.reimagining@gmail.com /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/22106696

Season 2 Reflections - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E1 01/22/2022

Season 2 Reflections - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E1 Season 2 Reflections - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E1 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts , , & reflect on the conversations they had with podcast guests in season 2 (2021) and then spend a little time talking about what’s ahead for us in Season 3. They reference the following works: by Paul Kivel by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or tweet at us. On the web: On Twitter: On You Tube: You can also send feedback and ideas for future topics/guests to us at radical.reimagining@gmail.com /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/21857354

#Eval21 Reflections - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E12 12/07/2021

#Eval21 Reflections - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E12 #Eval21 Reflections - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E12 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts , & are joined by Evaluland podcast host, Dr. Dana Wanzer. Together they reflect on the recent American Evaluation Association conference. Asking this question - what did you see, hear, or experience at the conference that felt radical. Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or tweet at us. On the web: On Twitter: On You Tube: You can also send feedback and ideas for future topics/guests to us at radical.reimagining@gmail.com /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/21355061

Lisa Sargent - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E11 11/13/2021

Lisa Sargent - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E11 Lisa Sargent - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E11 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts , , & chat with an Evaluator Advocate & Project Coordinator at , a social change center in Chicago, Illinois. This is the third episode in a three part series with members of the BECOME team on what it means to be a culturally responsive evaluator in this time of sociopolitical upheaval and collective trauma. In this episode we explore how evaluators can also be activists. Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or tweet at us. On the web: On Twitter: On You Tube: You can also send feedback and ideas for future topics/guests to us at radical.reimagining@gmail.com /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/21145664

Dr. Gabriela Garcia - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E10 10/14/2021

Dr. Gabriela Garcia - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E10 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Smith, & Libby Smith chat with Dr. Gabriela Garcia an Evaluator Advocate at BECOME, an innovative movement building organization in Chicago. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/20807630

Dr. Dominica McBride - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E9 09/17/2021

Dr. Dominica McBride - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E9 Dr. Dominica McBride - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E9 /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/20499374

Dr. Aisha Rios - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E8 08/17/2021

Dr. Aisha Rios - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E8 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Dr. Tiffany Tovey, & Libby Smith chat with Dr. Aisha Rios. She is the founder and learning and change strategist at Co-Active Change. She co-laborers and collaborates with an array of people who practice evaluation and organize for abolition. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/20164151

Chris Hall - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E7 08/04/2021

Chris Hall - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E7 Chris Hall - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E7 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts , , & chat with , a PhD candidate in the Evaluation Track in the Educational Research Methodology Department at the University of North Carolina Greensboro who has been a consistent contributor to our blog posts since the beginning of the Rad journey. Take a look at Tiffany’s July where she explores how evaluators can facilitate a truly collaborative learning environment. Here are a few resources that Chris referenced in the podcast: His personal blog on Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or tweet at us. On the web: On Twitter: On You Tube: You can also send feedback and ideas for future topics/guests to us at radical.reimagining@gmail.com /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/20025374

Dr. Melanie Mitros Radical (Re)imagining S2 E6 07/31/2021

Dr. Melanie Mitros Radical (Re)imagining S2 E6 Dr. Melanie Mitros - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E6 /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/19983926

Rory Neuner - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E5 06/25/2021

Rory Neuner - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E5 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Smith, & Libby Smith chat with Rory Neuner. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/19608794

Dawn Valentine - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E4 05/17/2021

Dawn Valentine - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E4 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Smith, & Libby Smith chat with Dawn Valentine about our May prompts. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/19123013

Dr. Ayesha Boyce - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E3 04/19/2021

Dr. Ayesha Boyce - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E3 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Smith, & Libby Smith chat with Dr. Ayesha Boyce about our April prompts. We explore the challenges of measuring equity and inclusion and the role of evaluation in navigating equitable and inclusive programming. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/18765830

Social Capital - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E‪2 03/18/2021

Social Capital - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E‪2 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Smith, & Libby Smith chat with one another on social capital. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/18381023

Maddy Frey - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E1 02/11/2021

Maddy Frey - Radical (Re)imagining S2 E1 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Smith, & Libby Smith chat with independent evaluation consultant Maddy Frey about our February prompt. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/17914817

Aimee White - Radical (Re)imagining #6 12/21/2020

Aimee White - Radical (Re)imagining #6 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Smith, & Libby Smith chat with Aimee White to reflect and specifically share what she's noticing about herself right now. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/17178128

Dr. Allison Titcomb - Radical (Re)imagining #5 12/20/2020

Dr. Allison Titcomb - Radical (Re)imagining #5 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Smith, & Libby Smith chat with Dr. Allison Titcomb about what the elements of community that allow for authenticity. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/17254496

Carolyn Camman - Radical (Re)imagining #4 12/19/2020

Carolyn Camman - Radical (Re)imagining #4 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Smith, & Libby Smith chat with Carolyn Camman about what it means to them to be radical. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/17178071

Rakesh Mohan - Radical (Re)imagining #3 12/19/2020

Rakesh Mohan - Radical (Re)imagining #3 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Smith, & Libby Smith chat with Rakesh Mohan about what it means to be in services to others. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/17254421

Jara Dean-Coffey - Radical (Re)imagining #2 12/19/2020

Jara Dean-Coffey - Radical (Re)imagining #2 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Smith, & Libby Smith chat with Jara Dean-Coffey about what it means to show up to work with our values intact. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/17254358

Tom Archibald - Radical (Re)imagining #1 12/13/2020

Tom Archibald - Radical (Re)imagining #1 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Smith, & Libby Smith chat with Tom Archibald about being more human in our professional lives as evaluators, academics, and data professionals. /episode/index/show/radreimagine/id/17170697

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