News
Coming in 2022 -- A Guidebook to Community Consulting
Ann Webb Price of Community Evaluation Solutions and I have teamed up to write this book. We have signed the contract with Cambridge University Press! Stay tuned for more news about the release date in 2022.
November and December 2021 New Opportunities
In November 2021 Susan Wolfe was accepted as an Affiliate Principal Investigator with Global Insight. Global insight partners with practitioners and others to conduct research and evaluation to identify, map, and measure the causes at the root of conflict, displacement, and vulnerability. In December 2021, Susan joined the Adjunct Faculty Pool at National Louis University in Chicago, IL.
Podcast Guest Appearance
One of my favorite collaborators and an amazing evaluator, Ann Webb Price, is now podcasting! I was honored to be her guest among several other awesome colleagues she has also talked with. Check it out here: Community Possibilities (buzzsprout.com)
November 2020 Announcing Our Partnership - Positive Impact consultants
Dr. Susan Wolfe has joined into a partnership with Dr. Ann Webb Price of Community Evaluation Solutions and Jenn Ballentine, MPH of Highland Consulting. We will continue to provide our current services. Through the partnership we will have the capacity to expand to provide evaluation capacity building and coalition development and evaluation services to foundations, nonprofits, and government entities on a larger scale. Check out our website at www.positiveimpactconsultants.com.
Published in Spring 2020 - Co-Edited A New Directions for Evaluation Issue
With my co-editors, Dr. Ann Webb Price from Community Evaluation Solutions and Dr. Kyrah Brown from the University of Texas at Arlington I co-edited this issue on Evaluating Coalitions and Collaboratives. A number of distinguished authors contributed chapters. More information can be found here.
January 2020 Publication in New Directions for Evaluation
I co-authored Partnering for Social Change: Collaborating with Clients and Communities with Ann Webb Price. It was published in the NDE issue - Independent Evaluation Consulting: Approaches and Practices from a Growing Field (Winter 2019). For more information about this issue, click here.
Events
2021 Events
2021 Events
2021 Events
December 2021 - Case Studies in Community Psychology Practice: A Global Lens.
I collaborated with my colleague, Kyrah Brown, and the rest of our needs assessment team to write a chapter in this open-access, online text titled Lessons from Conducting an Equity-Focused, Participatory Needs Assessment – Case Studies in Community Psychology Practice: A Global Lens (rebus.community) .
November 2021 - American Evaluation Association.
Two presentations I collaborated with were accepted and both were selected as part of the Presidential Strand. First, I served as the Chair and Discussant with my colleagues Matt Feldmann, Ann Price, Tamara Hamai, and Nina Sabarre to present Meeting the IC TIG Moment: Mastermind Groups, Office Hours, IC Topic Chats, and Squad Socials. The second presentation was with my colleagues from the Network of the National Library of Medicine, Asih Asikin-Garmager, George Salim, Hacer Karamese, and Brittney Thomas. We presented Building a Solid Foundation for Community Engagement Activities through Nested Logic Models.
August, 2021 - American Psychological Association Annual Conference.
My invited address was "Decolonizing Research, Funding, and Human Services." I presented with Dr. Geri Lynn Peak from Two Gems Consulting.
July, 2021 - HEAL
I was an invited speaker and presented Principles for Equity and Justice: Incorporating them Into Your Work with Families and Communities.
June 2021 - Society for Community Research and Action 18th Biennial Conference
I served as conference chair for this virtual conference held on June 22-26th. The conference theme was "Uprooting White Supremacy."
May 2021 - Canadian Evaluation Society Annual Meeting
Ann Price and I presented an online workshop and an additional conference presentation on evaluating coalitions.
April 2021 - National Summit for Educational Equity: Advocates for Equity Conference
Ann Price and I presented "Developing Strong, Inclusive Collaborations to Advocate for Educational Equity".
January 2021 - Presentation to the Western Michigan Evaluation Network
I presented on Evaluating for Equity, Justice and Decoloniality.
January 2021 - Tarrant County Health Equity Alliance
Kyrah Brown and I presented "What's Next: How can HEAL Incorporate Equity and Justice Principles? A Way Forward"
2020 Events
2021 Events
2021 Events
November 2020 - I presented virtually at the International Conference for Community Psychology in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia!
At this conference I presented a pre-conference workshop on Building and Evaluating Inclusive Community Coalitions for Equity and Justice, and a presentation on Encountering and Confronting Colonizers: One Community Psychology Practitioner's Experience. This conference was rescheduled from June 2020.
October 2020 - I presented a paper on Applying Trauma-Informed Evaluation to Climate Change Disasters with Allison Van from Allison Van Consulting and McMaster University.
February 2020 - SCRA Conversations that Raise Your Practice Game: Tips for a Successful Consulting Practice
Webinar presentation for the Society for Community Research and Action Practice Council.
2019 Events
2021 Events
2019 Events
November 2019 - Presentations at Evaluation 2019: Paths to the Future of Evaluation in Minneapolis, MN
I presented in three sessions at this annual American Evaluation Association conference. They were: Identifying and Adapting Existing Tools and Methods with June Lee and Renee Bougard as part of a panel on Multi-Site and Multi-Level Evaluation of the NNLM All of Us National Program; Networking, Organizing, and Time Management as part of Meet the Pros: Intermediate Consulting Skills Fair; and on an invited panel on AEA Leadership Pathways.
July 2019 - Closing Keynote Speech for the National Association for School Nurses in Denver, CO
The title of this speech was Building Effective Partnerships and Collaborations for School Nurses.
June 2019 - Society for Community Research and Action Biennial Conference Presentations in Chicago, IL
I presented at the Society for Community Research and Action Biennial Conference. My presentations were: Sharing Our Work: Exploring the SCRA Publication Outlets as Venues for Dissemination (with other SCRA editors); Empower Yourself to a Career that Fits YOU: Considering a Practice Career with Gloria Levin; and Pathways to Compassion and Civility in Community Engagement Work with Carlos Luis, Emma Olgley-Oliver, Tom Wolff, Ramy Barhouche, and Olya Glantsman. I also presented a six-hour pre-conference workshop on Evaluating Coalitions and Collaboratives.
June 2019 - Presentation at the American Evaluation Association Summer Institute in Atlanta, GA
Once again I teamed up with Ann Webb Price from Community Evaluation Solutions to present a 3-hour workshop on Evaluating Coalitions and Collaboratives. The AEA Summer Institute was held in Atlanta, Georgia on June 9th to 12th.
2019 Events