The chat will include a question-and-answer session with panelists, and breakout rooms with staff from the Evidence & Equity Collaborative’s member organizations: Abt Associates, AIR, Mathematica, MDRC, NORC, Rand, RTI International, the Urban Institute, and Westat.
Panelists
Brooke Abrams, Abt Associates, Sr. Analyst, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, Brooke Abrams | Abt Associates
Rashida Welbeck, MDRC, Co-Lead Equity Collaborative and Senior Associate, Postsecondary Education, Rashida Welbeck | MDRC
Esteban Quiñones, Mathematica, Researcher, International Research, Esteban J. Quiñones (mathematica.org)
Regina Shih, RAND, Director, Social and Behavioral Policy Program and Senior Policy Researcher, Regina A. Shih - Profile | RAND
Hosts and Moderator
John Martinez, MDRC, Vice President and Director, Program Development and APPAM President, John Martinez | MDRC
Terris Ross, AIR, Program Director, AIR Equity Initiative, Terris Ross| AIR
Malcolm Williams, Senior Policy Researcher; Associate Research Department Director, Behavioral and Policy Sciences Department, Director of DEI and Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School, Malcolm V. Williams | RAND
To register, contact Leslie Ofori at lofori@appam.org.
About the Evidence & Equity Collaborative
In 2020, the chief executive officers from Abt Associates, AIR, Mathematica, MDRC, NORC, Rand, RTI International, the Urban Institute, and Westat, launched the Evidence and Equity Collaborative. Through this collaborative, our respective organizations are together pursuing a collective mission to address inequities within our own organizations, and in the conduct and application of research, to better inform policy, practice, and change efforts to address social justice. The nation’s reckoning with structural inequities and injustice has motivated our organizations to explore intersections across our respective DEI journeys to develop a learning agenda that helps build our capacities to conduct and apply research that is focused on more equitable outcomes for all. Our organizations are aligned in the powerful opportunity we see to amplify the focus on equity within the research field, and to advance transformation change.