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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