We offered a training on "Using Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) Method in Program Evaluation" as part of the @ucanr.edu Extension Evaluation Capacity Building training series. Thanks to the guest speakers for sharing REM examples from their projects.

We offered a training on "Best Practices for Developing Surveys and Basics of Sampling Methods" for as part of the 2025 @ucanr.edu Extension Evaluation Capacity Building training series. Thanks to the guest speakers for sharing survey design and sampling examples from their projects.

We offered a training on 'Best Practices for Running Focus Groups' for the first time as part of the @ucanr.edu Extension Evaluation Capacity Building training series. Thanks to our guest speakers for sharing examples from their extension evaluation & research projects in California and New Mexico.

For the first time at @ucanr.edu, we offered a capacity building training on ‘writing strong evaluation plans for grant proposals’ to our extension professionals. If you are interested in the training video, reach out time.

Focus groups are a commonly used data collection method in extension for evaluation and research purposes. In this blog for American Evaluation Association, I share my experiences of using focus groups in my work. Check out this blog if the topic is of interest to you: aea365.org/blog/extensi...

A new needs assessment paper from our team!

Had a great time talking to agricultural and extension education graduate students and faculty from different universities in the northern parts of India. I shared the graduate school admissions process and the potential agricultural, extension education, and evaluation careers in the United States.

Had a great time delivering two guest lectures on "planning and designing evaluations for international agricultural development and extension education programs" to University of California-Davis International Agriculture Development (IAD) undergraduate and graduate students.

Our paper related to farming and ranching through wildfire is accepted by Cal Ag Journal. From a survey of 505 California farmers, we found that producers play a central role in community emergency wildfire risk management. Findings have implications for policy reforms and extension programming.