Episodes
Monday Nov 13, 2023
S01E22: Indigenous Insights: Closing the Bundle w/ Gladys Rowe
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
In this final episode Gladys reflects on the first season of Indigenous Insights and shares her understandings of Indigenous evaluation and why it is a critical mechanism for decolonial futures.
And, as a sneak peak into the fun of Season Two, Gladys invites listeners into a space of reflection and poetry creation to think about (and feel into) what they have learned/unlearned throughout the journey of this first season.
Please feel free to share your poem/creation once you make your way through the episode by emailing Gladys at indigenousevaluationpodcast@gmail.com
Watch for Season Two coming Spring 2024. To be added to the mailing list when this is announced please send an email with the subject line: SUBSCRIBE to: indigenousevaluationpodcast@gmail.com
The episode transcript can be found here.
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Monday Aug 28, 2023
S01E21: Indigenous Insights: Sam Bird
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Sam Bird is a citizen of Peguis First Nation, currently residing in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She is a Program Partner at the Mastercard Foundation, Canada Programs, with a focus on Youth Engagement. She’s passionate about creating systems change for Indigenous young people. Outside of work she loves to enjoy all that northwestern Ontario has to offer when it comes to hiking, canoeing, and skiing. Sam is also an emerging writer, with work included in the newly released Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology.
Sam is the host of Young People Know, a five-part podcast series featuring the voices and experiences of young Indigenous leaders. The podcast explores the principles of effective, meaningful, and genuine youth engagement. In conversation with Indigenous young people from across Canada, the series shares the challenges, benefits, and opportunities they face in serving on advisory councils while working to create transformative change that embeds Indigenous values, priorities and protocols into the organizations and systems that affect their lives.
Resources from this episode:
Young People Know Podcast Series
The transcript for this episode can be found here.
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Monday Aug 21, 2023
S01E20: Indigenous Insights: Karen Alexander
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Dr. Karen Alexander is Ojibwe from the Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. She is the proud mother of four and grandmother of five. Karen’s culture as an Indigenous person is most important to her and she passes down her knowledge about how to live life ‘in a good way’ to her children and grandchildren. She has always strived to help other Indigenous people to heal and has been an addictions counselor and clinical social worker, as well as an evaluator and a researcher. Karen is most interested in making sure that Native people have programs, services, and evaluation that is appropriate to their culture. Karen’s dissertation examines the values that make us who we are as Indigenous people and the benefit of the inclusion of those values in evaluation. Most of all, Karen hopes that her research will help others to know ‘who we are’ on a deeper level.
Resources from this episode:
Exploring the Use of Cultural Values in the Evaluation of Programs with Native American Tribes
The transcript from this episode can be found here.
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Monday Aug 14, 2023
S01E19: Indigenous Insights: January O’Connor
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
January O’Connor currently lives in Anchorage, Alaska. January is Tlingit and is Alaskan born and raised in Kake, Alaska. She possesses a Masters in the Arts of Teaching from the University of Southeast and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and is a current PhD student in University of Alaska Fairbank’s Indigenous Studies program. In her Indigenous Studies PhD, January will research indigenous evaluation. Her secondary research passion and interest is indigenized education in secondary and post-secondary environments.
She is also 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 for educational programs that focus on Rural and Alaska Native youth and students.
In addition to bringing her educational and lived Alaskan and Alaska Native experience to her evaluation and research practices, she has 15 years’ experience leading and developing youth programming that is culturally responsive and based on positive youth development guided by research.
Resources from this episode:
Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Topical Interest Group, American Evaluation Association.
Ravens Group LLC https://www.ravensgroupak.com/
University of Alaska Fairbanks Indigenous Studies https://www.uaf.edu/indigenous/
The episode transcript can be found here.
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Monday Aug 07, 2023
S01E18: Indigenous Insights: Myra Parker & Danielle Eakins
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Dr. Myra Parker is an enrolled member of the Mandan and Hidatsa tribes and serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is currently the Director of Seven Directions which is housed in the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors within the Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Danielle Eakins is a licensed clinical psychologist and a research scientist at Seven Directions. Danielle is dedicated to supporting behavioral wellness through collaborative, strengths-based partnerships with Indigenous communities.
Resources from this episode:
Indigenous Evaluation Toolkit: An Actionable Guide for Organizations Serving American Indian / Alaska Native Communities through Opioid Prevention Programming
The transcript from this episode can be found here.
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Monday Jul 31, 2023
S01E17: Indigenous Insights: Caroline Davis
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Monday Jul 31, 2023
Caroline Davis is Diné (or Navajo) originally from the Navajo Nation in Arizona. Born and raised on the reservation, she has first hand knowledge that drove her passion to work in the field of public health. Tailoring her career specifically to Indigenous Populations she found her niche in evaluation work, and considers herself an advocate for the inclusion of Indigenous research and evaluation methods in any work with all communities but specifically Indigenous communities. She currently lives in Southern New Mexico with her husband and 3 children and works as a research director for an evaluation consulting group.
Resources from the episode
Tribal Early Childhood Research Center
The episode transcript can be found here.
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Monday Jul 17, 2023
S01E16: Indigenous Insights: Melissa Tremblay
Monday Jul 17, 2023
Monday Jul 17, 2023
Dr. Melissa Tremblay is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta . She is a Métis scholar, born and raised in rural Alberta. Melissa has a background in program evaluation, project management, children’s mental health, and working with Indigenous children and families using community-grounded methods. Melissa has worked in the field of evaluation for over ten years, and maintains a private evaluation practice. Her research and clinical background is focused on children’s mental health and working with Indigenous children and families from a strength-based perspective. Her research interests are primarily focused on exploring the development, resilience, and mental health of Indigenous children, youth, and families, as well as the use of arts-based methods with diverse populations. Melissa’s research takes a relational, community-based participatory approach and has allowed her the privilege of working in partnership with Indigenous peoples, communities, schools, and agencies across the country.
Resources from this Episode
Dissertation: Understanding the Experiences and Characteristics of Teen Families Involved in a Supportive Housing Program
The episode transcript can be found here.
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Monday Jul 03, 2023
S01E15: Indigenous Insights: Marissa Hill
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Marissa Hill is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario. She was born and raised in the Georgian Bay Métis Community, and has been a guest in Tkaronto since 2010. Marissa is rooted in rematriation and a reclamation of ancestral ways of knowing and being, and everything she does flows from here. Marissa is dedicated to transforming the systems and infrastructure that shape our holistic wellbeing using approaches that are rooted in community, equity, inclusion, love, dignity, and respect.
Marissa has extensive experience in program, project, and operations management. Most recently, she managed an innovation lab – the Indigenous Innovation Initiative hosted by Grand Challenges Canada – that supports First Nations, Inuit, and Métis women, Two Spirit, queer, trans, non-binary, and gender diverse people to bring their solutions to life, and was the community engagement and co-creation lead. Marissa joined Health Commons Solutions Lab in October 2022 as the Director of Operations and Strategy, while also supporting the organization to create space for exploring innovation within the context of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.
Outside of Health Commons, Marissa is leading and supporting work in the areas of Indigenous evaluation, impact measurement and storytelling, and data sovereignty. This includes being a partner in enabling inclusion and transformed practice within the British Columbia chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society; a member of the inaugural City of Toronto First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Data and Technology Advisory Circle; and a member of the Advisory Council for Common Approach (a leader in impact measurement).
Resources from this episode
Inquiry & Learning Bundle
Indigenous Knowledges and Data Governance Protocols
Shared Values and Principles of Indigenous Knowledges Creation and Application
Transcript from this episode can be found here.
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Monday Jun 12, 2023
S1E14: Indigenous Insights: Vanessa Nevin
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Vanessa Nevin is the Director of Health at the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Secretariat and comes from Sipekne’katik First Nation within Mi’kmaki. Vanessa has worked for APC for nearly 14 years on Health, Indian Residential School, Elections, and Social. She also has extensive experience working with First Nations communities and organizations including Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq, BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centre, North American Indigenous Games, and Victoria Native Friendship Centre. Vanessa also completed contracts with the Aboriginal Healing Foundation to review/arbitrate proposals and University of Victoria Law School to research on First Nations’ alternative justice programs throughout the province of British Columbia.
Vanessa obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in History and minor in Greek and Roman Studies from the University of Victoria, and completed graduate courses for Royal Roads University’s Master’s of Art program for Conflict Analysis and management. She also has a Royal Roads University certificate in Negotiations, and an Aboriginal Trauma Certificate from the Justice Institute of British Columbia.
Transcript from this episode can be found here.
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Monday May 29, 2023
S1E13: Indigenous Insights: Aneta Cram
Monday May 29, 2023
Monday May 29, 2023
Aneta Cram is a doctoral candidate with the School of Health at the Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa. Her doctoral research explores what Indigenous evaluation frameworks currently exist, how they were developed and the impact that they are having with the communities that they were developed for in order to provide guidance to support other Indigenous communities in developing their own community-specific evaluation frameworks.
Resources from the episode
Te Korekoreka (Kai Tahu, Aotearoa New Zealand) : https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f1e3bad68df2a40e2e0baaa/t/619d4459f54f7b340d282557/1637696631217/KIATIPUTEAOMARAMA_24November2021_LabTSITTR.pdf
Ngaa bi nya (Australia): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1035719X18760141?journalCode=evja
The Evaluation with Aloha Framework: https://www.creahawaii.org/aloha
Na-gah mo Waasbishkizi Bimise Keetwaatino bundle: https://policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/na-gah-mo-waasbishkizi-ojijaak-bimise-keetwaatino-singing-white-crane-flying
Nan's article: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cjpe/article/view/68444
Hot tips: Being a good guest in different cultural spaces.
Transcript from this episode can be found here.
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