This is a cross post from my old job. Just preserving it here for posterity. I slightly edited it to bring it current. Rewriting history and all of that. As long as I’ve known about evaluation, I’ve known about David Fetterman. Together with my doctoral mentor, Abe Wanderman, they developed the field of empowerment evaluation…

Hands down, this has always been the best story of Quality Assurance and monitoring I’ve ever heard. The general background: in the 1980s, the David Lee Roth-fronted Van Halen had a reputation for rock star excess. Think the broad stereotypes of trashing hotel rooms, making outrageous demands, et cetera, et cetera. They also put on…

So this is the relaunch of Dawn Chorus. For the past ten years or so, I’ve been working with a group out of South Carolina. In the way that bands sometimes grow apart over creative direction, so did that group. I’ve taken a really cool portfolio of projects with me to restart and refocus on…