Empowering Communities: A Conversation with Dr. David Fetterman

Episode Highlights

Dr. David Fetterman is my guest this week and oh my what a conversation!  I love his origin story.  Get ready to be inspired. - Ann

In this episode of the podcast, Ann and David discuss:

• What happens with communties own thier own change process. 
• How he came up with the concept of Empowerment Evaluation and that  pushback from others in the evaluator community. 
• The three-step approach to Empowerment Evaluation.
• The range of obstacles communities face when creating change and how participatory evaluation can help.
• What communities can and can't do.
• We must listen to the ideas and voices we do not want to hear. In the case of members of our communities, some people maybe believe different things and would rather go different directions, and we must hear them as well.
• The project he is most proud of. 

Just wait to you hear the community possibilities he sees. 

Dr. Ann Price is a community psychologist and evaluator based in Georgia. She works with coalitions, nonprofits, and foundations and helps them use their data to change their communities and helps them better tell their story.

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Music and editing by Zachary Price,  zachpricet@gmail.com

Dr. David Fetterman's Bio
Dr.  David M. Fetterman, is president and CEO of Fetterman & Associates, an international evaluation consulting firm. He has worked in over 17 countries, working in townships in South Africa and Native American reservations, as well as in high tech firms in Silicon Valley, including Google and Hewlett-Packard. He is currently facilitating a USAID sponsored empowerment evaluation in India focusing on eliminating tuberculosis. In addition, he is providing evaluation consultation services to Feeding America (one of the largest network of food banks in America). 

Fetterman has 25 years of experience at Stanford University, serving as a School of Education faculty member, School of Medicine director of evaluation, and senior member of Stanford administration. Fetterman concurrently serves as a faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Cla

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Community Possibilities is Produced by Zach Price
Music by Zach Price: Zachpricet@gmail.com