Congratulations to PhD Student Evelyn Coker who was selected as a Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Scholar of the American Evaluation Association (AEA). The GEDI program “provides paid internship and training opportunities during the academic year.” According to AEA, the goals of the program are to:
- Expand the pool of graduate students of color and from other under-represented groups who have extended their research capacities to evaluation.
- Stimulate evaluation thinking concerning under-represented communities and culturally responsive evaluation.
- Deepen the evaluation profession’s capacity to work in racially, ethnically and culturally diverse settings.
Evelyn’s research interests include social-emotional learning for urban adolescent minority females and violence prevention/intervention.