I am an evaluation methodologist specializing in transformative mixed methods evaluation. My work is done with the goal of providing support for transformative actions in cooperation with communities that are marginalized based on race/ethnicity, national origin, immigration status, gender, sexual identity, and disabilitiy.
Dr. Donna Mertens, Professor Emeritus at Gallaudet University, specializes in research and evaluation methodologies designed to support social transformation. She has authored/co-authored many methodological books related to social, economic, and environmental justice and human rights, most recently Mixed Methods Research, Program Evaluation Theory and Practice (3rd ed.); Mixed Methods Design in Evaluation; and Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology (6th ed.). She has consulted with many international agencies, such as the Healthy Start, Centers for Disease Control, Johnson & Johnson Foundation, UN Women, Engineers without Borders Canada, and the WK Kellogg Foundation.
Mertens served as the editor for the Journal of Mixed Methods Research from 2010-2014. She was President of the American Evaluation Association in 1998 and served on the Board from 1997-2002; she was a founding Board member of the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation and the Mixed Methods International Research Association.
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