College of Education and Human Development

Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Doris A. Espelien

  • Pronouns: she, her, hers

  • Doctoral Student, ES

Doris A. Espelien

Areas of interest

  • Equity
  • Neurodiversity
  • Evaluator education
  • Professionalization
  • Knowledge distillation
Degrees

MA, Education Policy and Leadership, UMN, 2019
BS, Family Social Science, UMN, 2016
AA, Arabic, Defense Language Institute, 2004

Biography

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.

Presentations

Johnson, D., Ajaj, R., Espelien, D., & Mertens, D. (2020). Inclusion or Exclusion: Disability in Evaluation.