The May 13 Group

The May 13 Group is an emerging ecosystem.

The May 13 Group was launched by Vidhya Shanker, PhD. 

Dr. Shanker, Founder & Convener of Collective Knowledge Works, is an interdependent, intersectional, and interdisciplinary evaluation practitioner, scholar, organizer, and activist.

She co-chairs the American Evaluation Association’s DEI Working Group along with Dr. Nisaa Kirtman and Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro. Dr. Shanker’s dissertation research bridged critical theories of systemic oppression with systems thinking to examine the construction of race in and through evaluation. The May 13 Group puts her dissertation’s recommendations into practice.

The individuals, philanthropic foundations, higher education institutions, government entities, professional associations, and publishers listed below have channeled their capital – time, money, expertise, and labor – in solidarity with The May 13 Group’s efforts to cultivate epistemic healing and wholeness in, through, and around evaluation’s socio-political economy.

• Isadora Collins – Teresa Ines Cruz – Carolina De La Rosa Mateo – Diana Siegel-Garcia – AJ Juraska – Chris Lysy – Libby Smith – Zachary Tilton
• The American Evaluation Association – The Barr Foundation – Humanity United – Western Michigan University Evaluation Center

Dissemination of this research was funded in part by The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Inc., and we thank them for their support: however, the findings and conclusions presented are those of the author(s) alone, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Foundation.