PODCAST
Indigenous Insights: An Evaluation Podcast
with Gladys Rowe
Tansi, greetings, welcome, my name is Gladys Rowe, I am so grateful that you are here.
What is Indigenous evaluation? Who is doing this work? How are we doing this work and what have we learned so far?
Each episode I sit in conversation with Indigenous evaluation practitioners, leaders, researchers, and scholars who are working in, thinking about, and supporting Indigenous evaluation to share how they are doing their work and the challenges and insights they’ve experienced along the way.
It is my hope that this podcast will feel like a deep breath – where we invite you to grab a cozy beverage and settle in. Join me and my guests as we open up our evaluation bundles – to share the gifts, knowledges, and hopes that we have gathered in our journeys and bring them together in this space. I hope in these stories you will find resonance in the critical contributions that Indigenous evaluation can make as we work towards decolonial futures and strengthening Indigenous resurgence.
I would also like to extend an invitation. If you are someone who has an interest in Indigenous evaluation and would like to have a conversation on this podcast, I would love to hear from you. Please send me a note and we can connect about your work, what you are learning, and the questions you are thinking about.
LATEST EPISODE
S05E09: Belonging, Indigenous Evaluation, and Growing the Next Generation with Cheyenne Seneca
In this episode, Gladys is joined by Cheyenne Seneca, an Indigenous evaluator at the Urban Indian Health Institute, for a beautiful conversation about identity, belonging, public health, and evaluation as a practice of service to community. Cheyenne shares her journey of coming into confidence in her Indigenous identity, shaped by family stories, connection to Seneca heritage, urban Indigenous community, and formative experiences at the National Congress of American Indians, Intertribal Friendship House, Native American Health Center, and tribal research spaces. Through these relationships, she came to understand evaluation not as an extractive or judgment-based practice, but as a way of giving back, strengthening community, and carrying responsibility with care.
Cheyenne reflects on her work supporting the evaluation of the Urban Indian Health Institute’s Public Health Training Program, which supports Indigenous youth, interns, and fellows in exploring public health, research, evaluation, and service. They explore the opportunity of storytelling, art, oral presentations, and culturally grounded evaluation methods as powerful ways for young people to reflect on their learning and reclaim their place in science, public health, and community leadership. This episode is an invitation to invest in Indigenous youth, build spaces of belonging, and imagine Indigenous evaluation as a practice rooted in love, cultural connectedness, mentorship, and collective futures.
Podcast Swag
Profit from the sales of the podcast swag will be deposited into an Indigenous evaluation development fund. Once enough funds are available a call will be announced seasonally for Indigenous evaluators to apply through a letter of interest to support wholistic capacity development.
