Dear CREA Family, Friends, and Colleagues:
First let me begin by once again thanking everyone for their patience as we all continually navigate our national and global contexts at multiple levels in preparation for our conference. There is increasing excitement and frenetic planning for our Sixth International CREA Conference, Interrogating Cultural Responsiveness against the Backdrop of Racism and Colonialism, to be held in Chicago September 29 -October 1. I am very pleased to announce an outstanding offering of pre-conference workshops (in person only) that will be available on September 28 and 29th.
Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
(Full Day)
Title: Theoretical Foundations of Culturally Responsive Evaluation
Presenter(s):
Rodney K. Hopson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Karen E. Kirkhart, Syracuse University
TITLE: Utilization of a Culturally Responsive and Racial Equity Lens to Help Guide Strategic Engagement and Evaluation I & II
Presenter(s):
Paul Elam, Michigan Public Health Institute MPHI; Mindelyn Anderson, Mirror Group LLC; Kristine Andrews, Child Trends; Tracy Hilliard, Michigan Public Health Institute MPHI; Lashaune Johnson, Estella Lucia Evaluation LLC
TITLE: Acknowledging History: Enacting Community Engagement and Participatory Approaches to Foster Culturally Responsive Evaluation With LatinX
Presenter(s):
Lisa Aponte Soto, Tanoma Consulting
Title: Transformative Mixed Methods Design I & II
Presenter(s):
Donna Mertens, Professor Emeriti, Gallaudet University
Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
(Half Day)
(Morning Sessions)
Title: LGBTQ+ Evaluation and Cultural Responsiveness: An Intensive Workshop
Presenter(s):
Dylan Felt, Northwestern University; Gregory Phillips II, Northwestern University; Erik Elías Glenn, Northwestern University; Josh Boegner, Northwestern University
TITLE: The Foundations of Indigenous Evaluation
Presenter(s):
Joan LaFrance, Mekinak Consulting
TITLE: Re-Claiming, Re-Positioning, Re-Privileging Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Evaluation and Research
Presenter(s):
P?lama Lee, Lili?uokalani Trust; Katherine A. Tibbetts, Hawai?i-Pacific Evaluation Association; Paula Morelli, Consuelo Foundation Hawai`I; Dawn Mahi, Consuelo Foundation Hawai`i
TITLE: Fairness and Assessment: Engaging Psychometric and Racial Justice Perspectives
Presenter(s):
Drew Gitomer, Rutgers University and Emi Iwatani, Digital Promise
Further details and descriptions on each preconference workshop can be found at: https://crea.education.illinois.edu/conferences/sixth-international-conference/pre-conference-workshops and bios of the presenters found at: https://crea.education.illinois.edu/conferences/sixth-international-conference/more
CREA VI will begin at 1 pm on September 29 with Joe Podlasek (Trickster Gallery) and other representatives of the Chicago Area Indigenous Communities providing the formal welcome ceremony once again and will be followed by CREA/UIUC opening remarks.
We are finalizing our opening keynote speaker for the evening of September 29 that will be followed by our welcome reception. Our morning plenary session on September 30 will focus on “Measurement, Data Science, and the Critical with panelists: Ezekiel Dixon-Roman (University of Pennsylvania), Odis Johnson (Johns Hopkins University) and Ebony McGee (Vanderbilt University)
Monica Mitchell (MERAssociates) will chair this session and Melvin Hall (Northern Arizona University) will serve as discussant.
Na’ilah Suad Nasir (President Spencer Foundation and current President of the American Educational Research Association will deliver the Fifth Edmund W. Gordon Distinguished Senior Lecture at the luncheon as part of Professor Gordon’s Centennial Birthday Celebration.
Mildred García (President, American Association of State Colleges and Universities Washington DC.) will deliver the closing conference keynote address at the luncheon on October 1. Daniel Solórzano (Professor of Social Science and Comparative Education and Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA) will serve as the discussant.
Further details on these panelists and other keynote/plenary speakers can be found at: https://go.illinois.edu/CREA6thSpeakers
Deadline for the early bird discount for the in persons conference is August 13, 2021
Registration for the in person CREA VI and hotel registration only can be found at: https://crea.education.illinois.edu/conferences/sixth-international-conference .
Palmer House Hotel Reservations https://crea.education.illinois.edu/conferences/sixth-international-conference/hotel-registration
Registration link for the virtual component of CREA VI only can be found at: https://go.illinois.edu/CREA2021Virtualregistration
If you have questions or need assistance please contact Tim Leyhe at tleyhe@illinois.edu