The  first episode of the season will post on Monday, July 5. We’re joined  by evaluator and recent author Chari Smith. We talk with Chari about her  new book, her approach to building a culture of evaluation with her  clients, and (on a tangent we couldn’t resist) her background in and  passion for music and theater.

Chari was the perfect guest for  the first episode of the season, which we’re using to loosely explore  the theme of inclusion. How can we be more inclusive of others’  perspectives when doing evaluation? How can we be more inclusive of  program participants’ lived experiences when developing evaluation plans  and collecting data? How can we as evaluators be more open to others’  experiences and, more importantly, include those voices to make our work  better? Chari takes an intentionally inclusive approach to building  capacity, and we learned a lot from our conversation with her.

Throughout  the season, we will continue to drop episodes on the first Monday of  every month. As in the past, if you have questions or topics you want to  see explored on the podcast, please reach out at  https://glassfrog.us/contact-us/. We love hearing from our listeners!