With nearly two decades of experience in non-profit program design/evaluation, organizational capacity building, and training/curriculum development, April is committed to transformative work with underserved, underestimated communities and Indigenous nations in the US and internationally.

April earned an American Indian Studies Ph.D. with a dual emphasis on law and policy and Native Nation (Re)Building and completed a Graduate Certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies (American University, 2015). 

Her scholarship combines sociolegal analysis, critical trafficking studies, and evaluation methodologies focused on community health, public policy, and assessments concerning “difficult topics” within an anti-racist, decolonial, queer praxis, and capacity building.

Michael brings over 15 years of experience in non-profit program design and evaluation, project leadership, organizational capacity building, mixed methods evaluation, grant writing, and international community development.

Michael earned a Measurement and Evaluation MS (American University, 2020) and completed a Graduate Certificate in Indigenous and Tribal Nation-Building, Leadership, Management, and Administration (Northern Arizona University, 2021).

His/their scholarship focuses on culturally responsive and equitable evaluation within an anti-racist, decolonial, queer praxis, and capacity building to support Indigenous nation self-determination and sovereignty contexts.

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