Lessons for Hope: Unscripted Talks on Evaluation: Recent Episodes
AKA
Allyson Kelley and Associates (AKA) is a small women-owned business that includes a multi-disciplinary team of associates comprised of American Indian college students and recent graduates, elders, subject matter experts, and cultural reviewers. Everyday AKA works to build equity, connection, and advocacy for the people, organizations, and communities that we serve through training, evaluation and research. In this podcast we explore our journey to be a leader in building evaluation capacity, understanding, and infrastructure resulting in opportunities for community healing and transformation.
AKA sits down with Marcus Red Thunder, a Native Wellness trainer and consultant for Eastern Shoshone Recovery to talk about the photos, the method, and the professional photographs to document wellness and recovery.
This interview features youth who attended the Fort Peck 30th Annual Youth Leadership Conference and who reflect on what they learned, areas of improvement, and overall insight. AKA Interns Ashely Weigum and Brighten Crawford moderate a conversation that opens up an enlightening conversation on the long-standing and impactful conference.
Note: Audio was captured in a raw format so may be difficult to hear at times.
Dr. Allyson Kelley, President and Founder of AKA, sits down with friend and colleague, Dr. Clayton Small of Native PRIDE, a culture-based program for Native people that inspire leadership, healing, and wellness from colonization and multigenerational trauma, to talk about the recently published journal article “Rise Above: COVID-19 Impacts to Culture-based programming in four American Indian Communities”.
AKA presents their first episode of Lesson of Hope: Unscripted Talks on Evaluation. AKA interns Brighten Crawford and Jurnie Crawford reflect on how AKA learned and grew from being a part of this essential evaluation project that helped to elevate and impact Native American youth in the Pacific Northwest.