Repair (and Infiltrate) Evaluation’s Canon

An Oral History Project

Within The May 13 Group’s Counter Narrative stream is a pod working to organize the collection and dissemination of oral histories of…

• pivotal but obscured evaluation scholar-practitioners who shaped the evaluation field’s journey to understand and change persistent patterns of inequity and 

• people whose evaluative thinking, critical inquiry, and reflection have been pivotal to liberatory work, whether or not they have been affiliated with evaluation’s professional institutions and associations.

Drawing on oral history as a rich medium that members of groups written out of history have used to transcend dominant/ dominating notions of knowledge and leadership, we repair and infiltrate evaluation’s canon by…

…within, through, and around evaluation