ROUND TABLE 12 | DAY 1 | 2:45pm-3:45pm | BALLROOM J
| REBECCA RAE (Jicarilla Apache), Research Lecturer III, University of New Mexico-Center for Participatory Research and Santo Domingo Pueblo
| OLIVIA ROANHORSE (Navajo/Diné), Chief Operating Office and Portfolio Lead, Roanhouse Consulting, LLC.
| BEVERLY GORMAN (Navajo/Diné), Program Specialist/Social Worker, University of New Mexico-Center for Participatory Research and Santo Domingo Pueblo
| DAPHNE LITTLEBEAR (Tamaya Pueblo, Mvskoke, Yuchi, Shawnee), Research and Evaluation Manager, National Indian Education Association
The idea of co-creating an Indigenous Evaluators Network in New Mexico emerged from two organizations contemplating how to bring Indigenous evaluators, researchers, practitioners, and community members together to have critical conversations about data for Tribal communities. Indigenous researchers/evaluators at the University of New Mexico Center for Participatory Research (UNM-CPR) have implemented five cohorts of the Tribal Data Champions Fellowship (TDCF) and discussed the possibility of creating a network with the Fellows. Through the TDCF the team learned that having a space to have critical data, research, and evaluation conversations that advance the needs and successes for tribal communities and organizations is extremely valuable. These conversations are necessary to uplift and support Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Indigenous Methodologies in research and evaluation. Roanhorse Consulting, LLC, (RCLLC) an Indigenous women-led for-profit business with expertise in entrepreneurship, research, and evaluation was also discussing the need for developing an Indigenous evaluators network. As a result, the UNM-CPR, RCLLC and several TDC alumni partnered and created an internal planning team to plan and co-develop in-person gatherings to build out the Indigenous Evaluators Network. The internal planning team has planned and hosted three in-person Indigenous Evaluators Network gatherings.
The presentation aims to share:
1) The collaborative partnership of the internal planning team, which has included alignment on collective purpose, relationship building, roles, time, resource sharing and commitment to creating an Indigenous Evaluators Network.
2) The evolution of the Indigenous Evaluators Network based on three in-person gatherings with Tribal Data Champion alumni and other Indigenous evaluators, researchers, and practitioners in New Mexico.