Anti-Racist Approaches to Evaluation: Lessons, Reflections, Advice with Dr. Ayesha Boyce
On May 14th, at 11:00 a.m. MST, the DEL team, in collaboration with AMP will be hosting our final webinar for our mini-series. We are honored to have Dr. Ayesha Boyce, an African American professor from Arizona State University and board member of the American Evaluation Association, facilitating this session. We’ll explore lessons, reflections, advice, and informed approaches towards evaluation.
Ayesha Boyce, PhD is the associate director for strategic partnerships and an associate professor in the Division for Advancing Education Policy, Practice, and Leadership in the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Arizona State University. Her research career began with earning a B.S. in psychology from Arizona State University, an M.A. in research psychology from California State University, Long Beach, and a Ph.D. in educational psychology with a program evaluation specialization from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Before pursuing her doctorate, she was a research associate for the Arizona Department of Education in the Accountability Division. After earning her Ph.D., she completed a one-year postdoctoral scholar position with the UIUC Illinois STEM Education Initiative. Boyce then joined the University of North Carolina, Greensboro’s Department of Educational Research Methodology from 2015 to 2021 as an assistant professor.
She also co-directs the STEM Program Evaluation Lab. Boyce’s scholarship focuses on attending to value stances and issues related to cultural responsiveness and social justice within evaluation—especially multi-site, STEM, and contexts with historically and systematically marginalized populations. She also examines teaching, mentoring, and learning in evaluation. With over 18 years of evaluation experience, she has evaluated more than 65 programs funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), US Department of Education, US Department of Defense, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Institutes of Health, and Spencer and Teagle foundations. Boyce is a 2019 American Evaluation Association (AEA) Marcia Guttentag Promising New Evaluator Award recipient and a 2019 UNC Greensboro School of Education Distinguished Research Scholar Award recipient. She is a member of the AEA Board of Directors, an Affiliate Faculty member for the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment, and an Ethics, Values, & Culture Section Co-Editor for the American Journal of Evaluation.