Title/Role at U of T:
- Previous IEN Faculty Co-Chair of the Indigenous Education Network
- Assistant Professor of Indigenous Mental Health and Social Policy
- Canada Research Chair in Critical Studies in Indigenous Health and Social Action on Suicide
Research/Teaching Keywords: Critical Mental Health; Indigenous Social Policy; Suicide; Grief; Social Dimensions of Indigenous Health; Youth; 2SLGBTQ+ health; Decolonizing Research Methodologies; Ethics
Why are you part of the Indigenous Education Network? I am part of this network because I believe in that one of the best ways that we can serve Indigenous peoples is by helping nourish the relationship between our work in universities to address the needs, desires, and hopes of Indigenous communities and social movements. I also see the IEN as a unique space which stimulates the kind of radical care, anticolonial convergences, commitments, and collective actions that are needed to transform universities, and our society at-large. I am also deeply passionate about making universities safer spaces for Indigenous students, as well as other students experiencing oppression. I am a part of this network to try to develop, link to, and enhance opportunities for student support in all areas, including academic, social, emotional, cultural, political, and spiritual supports. I am also a part of this network because through participation in it, I learn from and with other comrades, Indigenous, Black, Black-Indigenous, and others who find community in our network. Together, we are navigating the present opportunities and challenges of colonial institutions like the university, and repurposing the university for something else, something better where justice and our collective liberation is at the centre.
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