We are deeply saddened by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, Jacob Black, Ahmaud Arbery, Elijah McClain, and so many others. We fully support the efforts to push for change in our systems. 

The protests and conversations about race and policing in America require us to reflect on our role, the field of evaluation and the change we MUST make as well.  MNEA provides this webpage as a resource, knowing that we must develop more opportunities for us to grow, learn and improve our practices to help dismantle the underlying systematic racism that exists in our society.  

The evaluation field should look for opportunities of growth in areas of access, justice and equity.  We must amplify the efforts of our fellow evaluators who are from communities that are Black, Indigenous and/or of color (BIPOC).  We need to listen, support efforts that are culturally inclusive, acknowledge bias in evaluation and continuously improve the evaluation field to work against racism and injustice.  

Even though more people of color are entering the field of evaluation, white professionals are still the majority.  The implicit biases of white evaluators are part of our history, our body of research and practices.  Knowing this, we must step-up, build awareness and intentionally change our practice.  We must address our history, our own implicit bias, and work together to overcome perpetuating inequities. 

The resources below provide learning opportunities and evaluation related volunteer opportunities in the following areas:  social justice, policing, implicit bias, race and/or evaluation resources related to these topics. If you would like to add resources to this list, please email us at info@mneval.org.

Sincerely, MNEA Board