Empowerment Evaluation and Social Justice: Confronting the Culture of Silence

About David M. Fetterman

David M. Fetterman PhD is president and CEO of Fetterman and Associates an international evaluation consulting firm and the founder of empowerment evaluation. Dr. Fetterman has worked in more than 17 countries--in South African townships and Native American reservations as well as in Silicon Valley tech firms including Google and Hewlett-Packard--and has 25 years of experience at Stanford University serving as a School of Education faculty member the School of Medicine director of evaluation and a senior member of the University administration. He currently serves as a faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Fetterman is past president of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the Council on Anthropology and Education of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). He is a recipient of honors including the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Evaluation Theory Award and the Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Evaluation Practice Award from the AEA; the Presidents Award from the AAA; the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Research on Evaluation Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association; and the Award for Excellence in Research from the Mensa Foundation. He is the author or editor of numerous books.