Indigenous Insights: An Evaluation Podcast

S01E18: Indigenous Insights: Myra Parker & Danielle Eakins

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
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S01E17: Indigenous Insights: Caroline Davis

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
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S01E16: Indigenous Insights: Melissa Tremblay

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
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S01E15: Indigenous Insights: Marissa Hill

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
 
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S1E14: Indigenous Insights: Vanessa Nevin

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.
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S1E13: Indigenous Insights: Aneta Cram

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. 
 
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S1E12: Indigenous Insights: Kim van der Woerd

Dr. Kim van der Woerd is the Lead for Strategy and Relations at Reciprocal Consulting, a firm co-owned by four Indigenous women and founded in 2003.
 
Kim is a proud member of the ‘Namgis (Numgees) Nation, and completed her PhD in Psychology at Simon Fraser University (SFU). Her dissertation research focused on a comprehensive participatory evaluation of a Federally funded First Nations substance abuse treatment centre. Kim has over 25 years of experience conducting local, provincial and national program evaluations, and research. Kim has received many accolades for her outstanding work including the BC Community Achievement Award and the The Mitchell Award from the BC Achievement Foundation in 2018, a Contribution to Evaluation in Canada Award from the Canadian Evaluation Society in 2014, and the Michael Scriven Dissertation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evaluation Theory, Methodology or Practice in 2007. 
 
Resources from this episode:
 
Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. (2nd Ed.). Zed Books.
 
Shawn Wilson’s Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Fernwood Publishing.
 
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge And The Teachings Of Plants. Milkwood Editions.
 
Monique Gray Smith’s adaptation, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Zest Books.
 
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S1E11: Indigenous Insights: Abigail Echo-Hawk

Abigail Echo-Hawk, MA, is an enrolled citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. She was born in the heart of Alaska where she was raised in the traditional values of giving, respect for all, and love.
 
Abigail is an auntie, sister, mother, daughter, granddaughter, and a community member who works toward building a great future for the next generations. She serves her community as the Director of Urban Indian Health Institute and Executive Vice President of Seattle Indian Health Board where she works locally to provide public health services to the Seattle Urban Native community and nationally  to engage community partners, conduct research and evaluation, and build capacity for Native organizations.
 
Resources from the episode 
 
UIHI Indigenous Evaluation Resources: https://www.uihi.org/projects/indigenous-evaluation/ 
 
Measuring Love in the Journey for Justice: A Brown Paper (Shiree Teng & Sammy Nuñez) https://latinocf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Shiree-Teng-Measuring-Love.pdf 
 
Malia Villegas: #lovemore
Malia Villegas: A roadmap for collaborative and effective evaluation in Tribal communities
Building the Sacred: An Indigenous Evaluation Framework for Programs Serving Native Survivors of Violence
https://www.uihi.org/resources/building-the-sacred-an-indigenous-evaluation-framework-for-programs-serving-native-survivors-of-violence/
 
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S1E10: Indigenous Insights: Melanie Nadeau

Dr. Melanie Nadeau, aka Dr. Mel, is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in Belcourt, North Dakota.  She completed both her Master’s in Public Health in community health education with a concentration in health disparities and her PhD in social/behavioral epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Dr. Nadeau is a community engaged scholar and has worked more than 18 years on various research and evaluation projects within the American Indian community. She has successfully engaged a multitude of tribal health stakeholders from across the nation and is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of Native communities.  Dr. Mel currently serves as Graduate Program Director and Assistant Professor for the Indigenous Health PhD program housed within the Department of Indigenous Health at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences.  Dr. Mel also serves on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Research Review Board, the American Public Health Association’s American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian board, and as program co-chair for the American Evaluation Association Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Topical Interest Group. 
 
Resources from the episode
Dr. Melanie Nadeau’s University of North Dakota Directory Page including her biography, digital stories about my educational journey, contact information, curriculum vitae, websites, courses, research/areas of interest, publications/presentations and stories featuring her work in the media. 
Indigenous Evaluation Framework by Dr. Joan LaFrance and Richard Nichols.  American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). 2009.  Here is the link to the AIHEC website that includes a link to Document Collections and Document Libraries . 
A Framework for Evaluation. CDC. 1999. 
 
The show transcript is available here.
 
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S1E09: Indigenous Insights: Terrellyn Fearn Part 2

Terrellyn Fearn is the Project Director of Turtle Island Institute, a global Indigenous social innovation think and do tank - a teaching lodge enabling transformative change. She brings wisdom and understanding of Indigenous well-being and community building through rematriation and Indigenous ways of knowing. Terrellyn’s work over the last 30 years has focused on advancing social justice and systems change in the area of health, gender-based violence, education, and child welfare having worked with over 400 rural and urban Indigenous communities throughout Turtle Island.
 
In 2017, she was the Director of Outreach and Support Services for the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and led a 2.5 year process for family members and survivors of violence to share their truth. She is a MEd. candidate at York University and a Research Associate at the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation & Resilience (WISIR) focusing on understanding complexity theory, ethical space of engagement, Indigenous feminism, and healing centered design. She sits on the Indigenous Advisory Circle for the Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime focused on the decolonization of the Canadian criminal justice system.
 
Questions reflected in the episode include what can an understanding and relationship with Indigenous languages offer evaluation and inquiry? What is the opportunity of Etawaptmumk and how can we go deeper into the language and practices to learn about learning and reflection. How can we tell the stories of impact in ways that align with this journey?
Resources from the episode
More about Two-Eyed Seeing: http://www.integrativescience.ca/Principles/TwoEyedSeeing/
Article: Willie Ermine: Ethical Space of Engagement.
Photos from Terrellyn Fearn including 8-point star petroglyph, ribbon skirts, and bundle blanket
Join Turtle Island Institute Virtual Teaching Lodge 
https://turtle-island-lodge.mn.co/share/SlH9yMlZxJZkXeCd
 
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