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Hi everyone! I’m really excited to share about a project I recently collaborated on with my old employer Innovation Network. We worked together to create a visual narrative of a really cool and interesting case study.

The visual narrative tells the story of how Parent Voices Oakland made important gains for early childhood education in Alameda County, California with support from Community Change. Parent Voices Oakland is a parent-led grassroots child care advocacy organization; they advocate for affordable, accessible, quality child care.

It’s a fascinating story that covers the challenges, tensions, and benefits for community organizations engaging for the first time or deeply in nonpartisan electoral work. Take a look at the full visual narrative below or download it here.

Hi friends! I recently presented on USAID LEARN‘s experience using journey mapping as a visual storytelling tool at the American Evaluation Association’s Annual Conference in Minneapolis. Along with my amazing colleague, Jenny Lyons of Pivot Data Design, we shared two case studies of how journey mapping has been used in the evaluation field, our reflections about what worked well and what did not, and ideas and tips for future application. We are so thrilled to see so much energy for journey mapping in the evaluation field and are looking forward to continuing to explore and share about this topic. Until then, take a look at the slides we created for our presentation below. I hope you have a restful and rejuvenating holiday, everyone! I’m excited to see what 2020 will bring.

Journey Mapping Slides_ AEA 2019 Presentation

Hi everyone! I recently attended the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This year’s theme was Paths to the Future of Evaluation: Contribution, Leadership, Renewal. In addition to presenting on visual note-taking and journey mapping as evaluations tools, I also attended a few interesting sessions. Take a look below to see my visual notes from the sessions I attended. Looking forward to next year!

Hi #Eval19 friends! I’ve just returned home from the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference in Minneapolis. In addition to defrosting, I am also reflecting a lot on my experience at AEA this year. So many of my favorite moments at the conference this year happened in the half-day professional development workshop I led on visual note-taking. I was really inspired by the amount of courage and appreciation in the room. I really liked how everyone had a growth mindset about the exercises and was appreciative of themselves and others. I came away from the experience feeling really uplifted and encouraged. I love training on visual note-taking and visual thinking in M&E! Take a look at the handbook and slides I created for the training (with some visuals pulled out below). Please feel free to get in touch with me if you are interested in pursuing 1-1 visual note-taking coaching or training on visual note-taking for your team or organization.  Thanks everyone! Have a wonderful week.

Hi friends! I spent this past week in Pamplona, Spain at Malofiej 2019, an annual gathering of illustrators, journalists, and data scientists. I’m leaving the conference feeling inspired by all of the incredibly kind and incredibly talented people I met. Some of my overarching take-aways include: 1) start with your curiosities and develop the skills needed to answer them, not the other way around 2) the communication of a single message is more important than precision and 3) the more sensory, the more memorable. I’m inspired to engage more senses in my illustration and data visualization work. Take a look at the visual summaries I created of the conference below.