Hello, my name is Dr. Adeyemo Adetogun (ETR Services LLC), originally from the Yoruba ethnic group in southwestern Nigeria, and I have lived experiences in other Western and Southern Africa. Impactful evaluation begins with cultural humility and a commitment to embracing perspectives beyond our own. When working with indigenous communities in Africa, it’s essential to …

IPE TIG Week: Evaluating with Respect: Embracing Indigenous Perspectives in African Communities by Adeyemo Adetogun Read More »

We are Nicky Bowman, Charmagne Campbell-Patton, and Michael Quinn Patton, here to share about a partnership between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Bowman Performance Consulting, a native and women-owned evaluation firm. This is a story about decolonizing funding, partnerships, and design/implementation of a project and related processes. Our intergenerational and intersectional team brought together …

IPE TIG Week: Decolonizing Evaluation Consulting, Funding and Partnerships:  Developing A Seven Directions Framework for the Nexus of Human Health & Climate by Nicky Bowman, Charmagne Campbell-Patton, and Michael Quinn Patton Read More »

Aloha mai kākou (hello, everyone), we are Niegel Rozet, Debbie Gowensmith, and Kinohi Fukumitsu, evaluation collaborators at a Native Hawaiian-serving organization. Niegel and Kinohi (both Native Hawaiian) are with Kua‘āina Ulu ‘Auamo (KUA), a backbone organization supporting Hawaiian practitioners at the intersection of land, community, and justice. Debbie has worked with KUA since 2004 and …

IPE TIG Week: Rooting Evaluation in Hawaiian Culture by Kinohi Fukumitsu, Debbie Gowensmith, and Niegel Rozet Read More »

“When people get onto you for being [privileged], that’s kind of unfair, isn’t it?” This question arose from one of my students during a discussion about privilege as a form of social control. Instead of answering directly, I asked, “What do you think of #notallmen?” Another student explained that the hashtag emerged during the #metoo …

IPE TIG Week: Personalizing Privilege & Accompanying Indigenous Peoples by Christopher Hall Read More »

I’m Corrie Whitmore, an Associate Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage and Past President of the American Evaluation Association. I’m a teacher of evaluation, mother of Indigenous children, and lifelong Alaskan. I’m an “accidental evaluator” who began my evaluation career on Dena’ina Land working for a tribally owned and operated healthcare …

IPE TIG Week: Working in Tribal Communities as a non-Indigenous Evaluator by Corrie Whitmore Read More »

Hello, fellow evaluators! My name is Gladys Rowe, PhD, and I love getting creative. You may be thinking, great, but why are you writing about this in an AEA blog?? Stick with me… I love playing around with creative practices and am deeply invested in the intersections of Indigenous evaluation, decolonization, and reflexivity. And combining …

IPE TIG Week: Poetry in Motion: Using Arts to Shake Up Evaluation and Reflect Deeply! by Gladys Rowe Read More »

About the Author, January O’Connor: I am Tlingit and Alaska born and raised. I am a Founding Director of Raven’s Group LLC, a consulting group that provides services in program planning and design, grant writing, education and youth programming, and evaluation. I’m currently in my final years of my PhD journey in Indigenous Studies and …

IPE TIG Week: A Short Reflection on the Positionality and Creation of an Indigenous Evaluator – Dr. Nicky Bowman. A short summary of Dr. Bowman’s work by January O’Connor Read More »