Lynch School's Emily Gates honored

The American Evaluation Association has presented the Marcia Guttentag Promising New Evaluator Award to Emily F. Gates, an assistant professor at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development. The award honors a promising new evaluator during the first five years after advanced degree completion or within five years of entering the evaluation profession, and whose work is consistent with the AEA standards.

Gates joined the Lynch School in 2018 and is a member of the Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment Department. Her research examines systems thinking, values, and equity in evaluation. Recent work includes co-authoring Evaluating and Valuing in Social Research (with Thomas Schwandt, Guilford Press); co-editing a special issue of New Directions for Evaluation on systems- and complexity-informed evaluation; and leading a mixed methods study on equity in evaluation practice. She teaches graduate courses in evaluation practice and methods, evaluation theory and research, mixed methods inquiry, and theory of change. She previously was an evaluation fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

The AEA is a professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of evaluation as a profession.