Senior Specialist, Evaluation & Research
Southern Poverty Law Center, United States
Steven E. Lize, Ph.D. Senior Specialist Evaluation & Research, Southern Poverty Law Center. Steven (he/him) is an applied sociologist who uses social research and program evaluation to inform human rights advocacy, NGO campaigns, and social policy. Steven works with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) unit. He leads collaborative efforts to build capacity in logic model planning, integrate evaluation, develop research plans, and ensure accountability to communities. Before joining SPLC in 2022, Steven was with the Pew Charitable Trusts on the Results First Initiative. As an officer for technical resources and research, Steven advised state governments on using research evidence and program evaluation in budget development and planning. Prior to that, Steven was an assistant research professor of social work at the University of South Carolina and a senior legislative analyst at the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability in the Florida Legislature. Steven started his research career as a research associate with Free the Slaves, a human rights organization campaigning against modern forms of slavery worldwide. He holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Dominican University, and a master’s in international service and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Surrey, England. As a white, cisgender man, and settler residing on seized homelands of the Muscogee and Cherokee nations, Steven recognizes how his positionality shapes his perspective in his social research and program evaluation work, and that he benefits from unearned privileges of his racial and gender statuses. As a social researcher, Steven embraces theoretical and methodological approaches that value critical reflection, standpoints, and the influence of the researcher-participant relationship.
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Friday, October 25, 2024
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST