Keynote Speaker Biographies:

Dr. Corrie Whitmore University of Alaska, Anchorage

Current American Evaluation Association Board President and founder of the Alaska Evaluation Network, Dr. Whitmore is a lifelong Alaskan who returned to the state after completing an M.S. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at Virginia Tech—to help Alaska "grow our own" workforce. Her current research interests center around the role of trust in a patient-provider relationship, interventions to support families of young children in rural Alaska, and effective teaching in the Health Science classroom. Dr. Whitmore's teaching invites story into the health policy classroom, partners evaluation students with community programs where they can apply their learning to support operations, and introduces students to what public health looks like in Alaska. Outside of work, you often can find Corrie out on the trails hiking or skiing slowly, with two young boys.

Dr. Gail Barrington Barrington Research Group, Inc.

Gail Vallance Barrington is a CE and certified teacher. She managed Barrington Research Group, Inc. for 35 years, completing over 130 evaluation studies. Books include Consulting Start-up and Management: A Guide for Evaluators and Applied Researchers (SAGE, 2012) and Evaluation Time: A Practical Guide to Program Evaluation (Barrington & Triana-Tremain, SAGE, 2022). Awards include the CES Contribution to Evaluation in Canada Award (2008) and the AEA Alva and the Gunnar Myrdal Award for Evaluation Practice (2016). She is a Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society (2018).

Andrealisa Belzer, CE Atlantic Region of Indigenous Services

Andrealisa Belzer is a Credentialed Evaluator employed with the Atlantic Region of Indigenous Services Canada. She serves as National President of the Canadian Evaluation Society. She also participates in the EvalPartners EvalIndigenous Network and the Global Advisory Council for Blue Marble Evaluation. Andrealisa has practiced health and social services evaluation since 1995, in Canada and internationally. She is committed to evaluative and decolonizing practice that facilitates systems transformation toward mutualism.

Debbie DeLancey D.J. DeLancey Consulting

Debbie DeLancey has lived and worked in northern Canada for more than 40 years, working with Indigenous communities and governments, the Government of the Northwest Territories, and most recently as a self-employed researcher and consultant focusing on health policy in remote regions, and evaluation of Indigenous land-based programming. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society and a Research Associate with the Aurora Research Institute.

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