Dr. Nicole Bowman is President of Bowman Performance Consulting and an Associate Scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an Associate Editor and co-founder of Roots and Relations, a permanent section in the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. In 2018, Dr. Bowman received American Evaluation Association’s 2018 Robert Ingle Service Award, and was notably the youngest and first Indigenous awardee. She has served decades as chair or co-chair of AEA’s Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Topical Interest Group, in addition to participating in numerous global evaluation initiatives. She is a curious, creative, and courageous innovator whose academic lodge sits at the place where traditional knowledge and Tribal sovereignty intersect with evaluation, policy and research. 

Resources from this episode

Resource: BPC Academic Lodge 

Book Chapter: Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluation (2015)

Open Access Article: Looking Backward but Moving Forward: Honoring the Sacred and Asserting the Sovereign in Indigenous Evaluation

The show transcript is available here.