People
Doris A. Espelien
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Pronouns: she, her, hers
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Doctoral Student, ES
I am a neurodivergent mother of two, primarily invested in taking the knowledge and resources I have been fortunate enough to access and putting them into as many hands as possible.
MA, Education Policy and Leadership, UMN, 2019
BS, Family Social Science, UMN, 2016
AA, Arabic, Defense Language Institute, 2004
- Equity
- Neurodiversity
- Evaluator education
- Professionalization
- Knowledge distillation
I am a neurodivergent mother of two, primarily invested in taking the knowledge and resources I have been fortunate enough to access and putting them into as many hands as possible. My "first life" as an Arabic translator taught me the value and personal joy of translating something I was trained to understand into something others can appreciate or use. My favorite part of evaluation is the interactions of logical exploration in the context of human complexity.
Johnson, D., Ajaj, R., Espelien, D., & Mertens, D. (2020). Inclusion or Exclusion: Disability in Evaluation.
