Tânisi, I am Dr. Gladys Rowe. I am excited to share Building a Bundle for Resurgence, a new card deck and facilitator guide created to support Indigenous and decolonial evaluation practice. The deck emerged from years of walking alongside Indigenous communities, evaluators, practitioners, and learners who have asked: What could evaluation look like if it
Boozhoo! My name is Courtney Davis, and I am an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, born and raised in Belcourt, North Dakota. I am currently a second-year doctoral student in the Indigenous Health program at the University of North Dakota.
Hello! We are Jemzi Ortiz, MS (Northern Cheyenne/Mexican) and Summer Chupco-Boyajian, MPH (Muscogee/Seminole/Cherokee). Jemzi is the Research & Evaluation Program Manager and Summer is the Youth & Family Services Evaluator in the Community Wellness Department at the Native American Health Center, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The legacy of cultural resistance for Indigenous peoples and deep-rooted relationships that we have make us proud Bay area Urban Natives and sustain our motivation to serve our community.
Hello! We are Jemzi Ortiz, MS (Northern Cheyenne/Mexican) and Summer Chupco-Boyajian, MPH (Muscogee/Seminole/Cherokee). Jemzi is the Research & Evaluation Program Manager and Summer is the Youth & Family Services Evaluator in the Community Wellness Department at the Native American Health Center, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The legacy of cultural resistance for Indigenous peoples and deep-rooted relationships that we have make us proud Bay area Urban Natives and sustain our motivation to serve our community.
Hi! We are Jennie Holmes, Casierra Cruz and Taylor Holland. As Indigenous Health Ph.D. Students at the University of North Dakota, we enter the program as colleagues, but after seminar weeks, long semesters, and shared experiences, those relationships grow into something closer to family. We make an intentional effort to stay connected and show up
I’m Nicky Bowman (Lunaape/Mohican), Policy Chair for the IPE TIG. A wife, auntie, sister, and friend, I am also a traditional community member and citizen of the sovereign Tribal Nation of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohicans in Wisconsin. My professional/academic work is via Bowman Performance Consulting and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Hi, my name is Cassie Anderson, and I’m a proud citizen of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy’s, located in north central Montana.
Hi! I am Matt Feldmann, the principal researcher and co-owner of Goshen Consulting. I generally focus my evaluation practice in Higher Education settings and was recently honored to be elected to the AEA Board of Directors. Eleven years ago I wrote a post about Soft Skills for Independent Consultants. Since then, I recognized that ALL
Hello! I’m Julianne Lee, an evaluation manager who has worked across several public sectors (academia, state/federal government, non-profits) before landing in Washington, DC. While I earned a doctorate in evaluation in 2007, my reflective practice strengthened from real life applications in education, health, public health, and transportation, on the ground and in collaborative conversations with
Hello, fellow evaluators! We are Linda Kawentel, Nardeen Shafik, and Rachael Kenney from the VA QUERI Center for Evaluation and Implementation Resources (CEIR). Among our other duties, we work together to design and facilitate evaluation trainings to build evaluation capacity within the VA healthcare system. When working on an evaluation team, it’s important to understand
