DEI Conference
Data Sovereignty, Indigenous Methodologies and Two-Eye Seeing Partnerships for Change
Session Description:
Come learn about Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous ways of knowing, data sovereignty, and how to form authentic partnership with communities and Native people through two-eye seeing and community based participatory action.
The role of quantitative data to replicate white supremacy in our communities and institutions will be explored as well as ways to use qualitative and arts-based community “data” for anti-racist change. There will be examples of community projects, story-telling and videos, critical race methods that can be used across many marginalized communities. How do we engage in co-capacity building to allow community to use anti-racist language and institutions to be ablet to form authentic relationships with community in a non-extractive way the honors, respects, and value community knowledge and lived experience? Learn about Free Prior and Informed Consent, community owned knowledge, and “proprietary” knowledge.
Objectives and Key Takeaways:
Learn about Indigenous methodologies, Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), community-based participatory research (CBPR), critical race theory (CRT), positivism and technical rationality, data sovereignty, Truth and Reconciliation, Two-Eye Seeing, qualitative and arts-based research and evaluation, white supremacy, cognitive dissonance, and a book list of resources for further learning with audiobook options.
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Guest Speakers
Sauncha Romey
Staff Support for the Washington Environmental Justice Council
Sauncha is Tsimshian from Metlakatla, AK and currently lives in Bonney Lake, Washington. She has a Tribal MPA from Evergreen, and is currently working on her Ph.D. in Studies in Higher Education with a specialization in Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion from the University of Kentucky online, as well as a second bachelor's in Native Studies at Northwest Indian College. Romey currently works as staff support for the Washington Environmental Justice Council, and also does Indigenous research and outreach consultation. She weaves critical pedagogies with western knowledge to advocate for communities as the pre-eminent experts with story, dialogue, and lived experience. Romey is hypercritical of the positivism paradigm and technical rationality if the numbers in those systems are not grounded in community reality or usable for communities to make change. Numbers should be derived from asking the right questions, collecting the data in a non-extractive or deficit manner, and analyzed with an equity lens, and the end product must be usable by communities for change.
