Latine evaluators and evaluation: Advancing representation and collective agency

This article details how connection to the late Dr. Stafford Hood, Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) and Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) provided conceptual, methodological, and affirming foundations of our collective work as Latina evaluators, knowledge co-creators, and mobilizers. The introduction of CRE & CREA with strategic sponsorship provided by Dr. Hood are key historic moments in the legitimization and advancement of Latine evaluators within and across the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and CREA. The co-authors, who are multiethnic and multicultural Latinas, consider LatCrit theory, collective agency, and legitimacy in relation to key moments in the evolution of Latine evaluation discourse over the last decade.