Who Are We?

In this episode, we (hosts Vidhya Shanker and Carolina De La Rosa Mateo) introduce ourselves, share how our worlds came together, and discuss The May 13 Group. We talk about our personal histories inside and outside evaluation, the Minnesota IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis, how The May 13 Group came to be, and what it could possibly become. We invite anyone who works in and around evaluation or other knowledge work (e.g., philanthropy, nonprofits, NGOs, government, academia) to take a listen and help craft the ecosystem!

Episode 1.1 TRANSCRIPT

Notes

1 correction: At the 45:34 mark, Vidhya misspoke by saying "before my generation and even before me" when she meant to say "before me and even before my generation."

References

• Why is Evaluation So White? (90-min video of Center for Evaluation Innovation webinar that took place on 5/13/2020)
• Definitional Tension: The Construction of Race in and through Evaluation (dissertation that draws from and led to many of the ideas The May 13 Group is working with)
• Pangea World Theater (comrades who helped create the stop-action play entitled The Revolution Will Not Be Culturally Competent, which led to the MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis)
• Theater of the Oppressed (playlist of videos ranging from 5 to 30 min on Augusto Boal and the performance traditions underlying The Revolution Will Not Be Culturally Competent)
• Welcome to the Revolution! MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis (AEA365 Blog entry)
• Shaking Up the Evaluation Patriarchy: AEA Womanists & Feminists Coming Together to Claim Power and Place in the Academy (AEA365 Blog entry)
• The Invisible Labor of Women of Color and Indigenous Women in Evaluation, Part 1 (AEA365 Blog entry)
• The Invisible Labor of Women of Color and Indigenous Women in Evaluation, Part 2 (AEA365 Blog entry)
• Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (inspiration for much of the mutual aid work)
• Why is Evaluation So White? 10 Ways to Repair, Reverse, Redress, and Regenerate from the Racialized Circulation of Capital in Evaluation (20-min video of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations short-talk)
• Mondragon (worker-owned coop in Spain)
• The Rand Corporation and Our Policy Makers (article about the Rand Corporation)
• Beyond Mobility: The Limits of Liberal Urban Policy (paper with a bit about/ surrounding the Urban Institute)
• The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profi