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Reflecting on Evaluation in Service of Racial Equity

Reflecting on Evaluation in Service of Racial Equity

At Catalyst Consulting, we enjoy honing our skills, growing, and deepening our understanding of evaluation and research methods. We come together once a month for a lively discussion on a variety of topics. Over the past year, we spent three of these meetings...

KPC to Catalyst

KPC to Catalyst

Hello there, and welcome to the story of my 2022 professional identity crisis! Last year, after 12 years of being in business, I rebranded and renamed my company. Some said it was a great idea, that it would signal to the world that things were going well. Others said...

Learning at the Intersection

Learning at the Intersection

Introduction This blog post demonstrates the value of beginning to study informal science learning (ISL) participants and visitors based on intersectional identities. Intersectionality is the idea that human characteristics such as race and/or ethnicity, gender,...

Boundary Spanners and Thinking Partners

Boundary Spanners and Thinking Partners

Christmas came early in 2020, as I had the chance to interview an awesome group of leaders from across the informal learning and science communication fields to learn about their experiences with research-practice partnerships (RPPs). My job was to learn about their...