Nicole Bowman (Mohican/Lunaape), Ph.D. is a culturally responsive evaluator through the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her own private firm, Bowman Performance Consulting, LLC (BPC). By utilizing traditional Indigenous knowledge, systems, and culturally responsive evaluation theories/methods she builds capacity, designs studies, and builds effective and evidence based models for Tribal and non-Tribal partners nationally and globally. By working “with” people and not “on” them, her policy, evaluation, and professional practices have helped to empower and improve the capacities and strengthen the impacts from hundreds of projects nationally and internationally.Since 2015, Dr. Bowman is the AEA Chair/Co-Chair for the Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation and has represented AEA globally on the International Working Group (IWG) and through EvalIndigenous (sub-task force of EvalPartners since 2016. In 2018, Nicky became the first Indigenous awardee of the American Evaluation Association’s (AEA) 2018 Robert Ingle Service Award for her contributions to the field. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015) and she currently sits on multiple national/international professional journal review boards and academic task force committees for education, evaluation, and research. Nicky resides in Shawano, WI with her husband David, and is an active traditional community member of the Mohican and Lunaape Nations. She is also an inspired Auntie of three Indigenous, multi-cultural nieces and nephews. Follow Nicky on social media:- BPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BowmanPerformanceConsulting/- BPC LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15669983/- BPC Twitter: @nbpc1, https://twitter.com/NBPC1- BPC You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bpcwi