Nisaa Kirtman will be presenting at the 2021 American Evaluation Association Virtual Experience from November 8th-12th. Nisaa will be presenting on the topic “Who are we? In whose name do we do our work?” with Vidhya Shanker and Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro as part of AEA’s recently-formed Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group on November 9th from 10-10:45am PST. If you are interested in learning more about AEA’s DEI Working Group or REA’s work with AEA, please reach out.

Jennifer Borland and Alex Gurn will be attending the virtual National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI meeting from October 19th-21st. The 2021 AISL PI meeting is by invitation only. Jennifer will be co-facilitating the Critical Conversations Roundtable on Tuesday and Wednesday (October 19th & 20th) from 1:30-2:15pm EST. Alex will be sharing findings with YR Media (Youth Radio) on innovative approaches to informal education in artificial intelligence on Wednesday, October 20th at 4pm EST. If you are interested in learning more about the NSF AISL program, please reach out.

Scott Burg will be participating as a panelist on a webinar sponsored by the California Girls in STEM collaborative on Friday, October 16th at 3pm EST/noon PST. The panel will be discussing research and evaluation methods for gender-based studies in STEM.

Jennifer Borland is presenting on innovative options for dissemination of evaluation Findings at the 2021 Indiana Evaluation Association Conference on Friday, October 8th from 12-1:15 EST and helping to sessions from noon-3PM on Friday, October 15th (including the networking session on Friday, October 15th from 3-4PM EST). Registration links and more information about the conference are available at: https://www.indianaevaluation.org/2021-Virtual-Conference