Kas Aruskevich
Principal
Kas has over 20 years of experience planning, writing, managing and evaluating federal discretionary grants that serve Alaska’s Native population. Her evaluation practice for the last 12 years is based on tenets of Indigenous Evaluation found through research in the post-settler states of New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Kas is an external evaluator for federal initiatives awarded to Tribal entities, vocational education programs, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her professional interests include mentoring Alaska Native students and graduates into evaluation, emerging Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluation practices and assisting rural Alaskan and Tribal clients to use strengths and evidence for improvement, growth, change and capacity building.
kas@evalalaska.com