How can child welfare programs advance racial equity through evaluation? This podcast follows Grace Atukpawu-Tipton, Ph.D., M.S.W., senior research associate and director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at James Bell Associates, as she talks with experts in racial and ethnic equity, disparity, and disproportionality in child welfare and other human service systems. Join them as they explore approaches and methods to apply an equity framework in the evaluation of child welfare programs and practices. In this second episode, Dr. Atukpawu-Tipton talks with Rita Cameron Wedding, Ph.D., professor of Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State University. Since 2005, Dr. Cameron Wedding has used her curriculum Implicit Bias: Impact on Decision-Making to train judges, public defenders, and practitioners in child welfare, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and education throughout the United States. She shares examples from her experience on topics including benefits and barriers to incorporating an equity perspective in evaluation, the role of implicit bias, and ways to avoid perpetuating stigma in language and research dissemination through collaboration and context.This podcast is especially relevant for Children’s Bureau child welfare discretionary grantees in planning and implementing evaluations of their funded projects. It is produced and distributed by James Bell Associates on behalf of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under contract number HHSP233201500133I.