Claire Bjork

Claire Bjork, PhD, is an outreach specialist, researcher, and internal evaluation coordinator for Earth Partnership. She has worked for EP since 2013, in a variety of roles helping to develop curriculum, coordinate youth programming and service learning, and facilitate educator professional development. Claire is focused on supporting Tribal-university partnership work with the Indigenous Arts and Sciences initiative, through youth, community, and educator learning opportunities and Tribally-Driven Participatory Research (TDPR). Claire has served as primary EP partner to Ho-Chunk IAS since 2015, with whom she is currently supporting community-based curriculum development and culturally-based science education through the NSF-ITEST project. She also helps to coordinate inter-Tribal research and evaluation for this project, supporting the Ho-Chunk Nation and the Bad River, Lac du Flambeau, and Red Cliff Bands of Lake Superior Ojibwe. She is the internal evaluation lead for the New Beginnings for Tribal Students projects (funded by USDA / NIFA), a first-of-its kind collaboration for Native Education Pathways begun in 2020 between College of Menominee Nation, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University, and UW-Madison.