Here is a selection of presentations I have delivered over the past decade.
March 2024 - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Resist, resurge, renew: Advancing the health and wellness of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit birthing persons, children, and communities. Eighth International Meeting on Indigenous Women’s Health Stronger Together: Resilience and Healing
Keynote presentation (Plenary) with Carol Couchie and Dr. Karen Lawford
April 2024 - McMaster University - Hamilton, Ontario
Decolonizing Midwifery Research Through Narratives: A Discussion of Indigenous Midwifery Digital Stories
Presentation with Claire Dion Fletcher who is a Lenape-Potawatomi and mixed settler Registered Midwife. Claire is an Assistant Professor at the Toronto Metropolitan University Midwifery Education Program. Her teaching focuses on Indigenous midwifery and social justice issues.
May 2023 - 17th World Congress on Public Health. Rome, Italy
Re-writing/RE- RIGHTING First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Public Health Research in Canada: A Commentary of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Maternity Experiences Survey
Presentation analyzing the Public Health Agency of Canada’s models for public health engagement to identify gaps in both understanding and creating effective strategies to improve the overall health outcomes in Indigenous communities.
June 2022 - Laurentian University - Sudbury, Ontario
Resistance, Resilience, and Connection to Land, Language, and Culture Through Digital Story Telling. Maamawizing: Aki miiniwaa Anishinaabeowin jibi-bskaabiimak (Land and Language Back, Baby)
Presentation at Laurentian University with Smit, M., and Barnaby, S.
May 2022 - Canadian Public Health Association Virtual Conference of Public Health
Impacts of COVID-19: Indigenous Women, their Families, and Communities
Presentation with Marchand, T.
June 2021 - University of Calgary - Calgary, Alberta
Sharing Circle in Commemoration of the 215 Children found at Kamloops Indian Residential School
Circle with Ed McCauley (UC president), Michael Hart (Vice Provost Indigenous Engagement), Elders Reg and Rose Crowshoe and Elder Doreen Bergum, Sanatanna Hernandez, Susan Made Kiss, Assad Ali Bik, Natasha Kenny, Bill Rosenhart
November 2020 - Ottawa, Ontario
Pandemic Responses Needed to Address Health Inequities for Indigenous Communities
Panel Presentation at the Canadian Science Policy Centre
April 2020 - Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canadian Public Health Association CPHA 20th Annual Conference
By supporting and giving voice to its diverse membership and by advocating to governments for healthy, inclusive public policy, the Canadian Public Health Association improves the health of Canadians and contributes to a more equitable society
May 2020 - Niagara Falls, Ontario
Cultivating the Youth as Tomorrow’s Leaders and Agents of Change
This interdisciplinary conference brought together Indigenous peoples, health care providers, researchers and experts in the field working to address the huge health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples
March 2020 - University of Calgary - Calgary, Alberta
Infusing Indigenous Matriarchy into the Academy: Celebrating Indigenous International Women's Day
By supporting and giving voice to its diverse membership and by advocating to governments for healthy, inclusive public policy, the Canadian Public Health Association improves the health of Canadians and contributes to a more equitable society
March 2020 - McMaster University - Hamilton, Ontario
Reconciliation Workshop: National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools
The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) offers access to resources that support public health practitioners in their evidence-informed decision making journeys
September 2019 - Valencia, Spain
Presentation in Valencia
International Summit on Anthropological, Cultural and Sociological Studies
June 2019 - CIHR Gender Idea Fair
Supporting Indigenous Transgender and Two-Spirit Children, Youth & Families
Presentation at the CIHR Gender Idea Fair
December 2018 - University of Calgary - Calgary, Alberta
Lecture: Ana(th)rky Talks: the Decolonizing Rabbit Hole
When I began my graduate degree at the University of British Columbia, I imagined breezing through a dissertation. However, the journey took me down what I call the “decolonizing rabbit hole.” I shared this experience with fellow faculty and students at the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology.
November 2018 - University of Calgary - Calgary, Alberta
Research & Practice Conference: Inspiring Innovation in Maternal Care Together
The Maternal, Newborn, Child & Youth Clinical Network (MNCY), ENRICH and their sponsors hosted a two day conference to initiate improving maternal and infant health in preconception, pregnancy and postpartum
October 2018
Plenary One – The New Indigenous Scholars
At a conference held by the Canadian Association of University Teachers, I was part of a panel of newly appointed Indigenous scholars who shared the challenges and opportunities they face at universities and colleges – and discussed what is needed to create a supportive academic environment.
July 2018 - Federal University of Santa Catarina - Florianópolis, Brazil
At Embodied Inequality: Colonialism, Canadian Residential Schools and Intergenerational Impacts
As part of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences 18th World Congress, I shared my journey as a third-generation, residential school survivorThrough auto-ethnography and visual anthropology. The intergenerational embodiment of colonialism has had profound effects, not only on my family but generations of Indigenous peoples, families, communities and Nations. However, we are a new generation of Indigenous warriors of change. We are working towards reconciliation, reclaiming, storing, rebalancing and ending the intergenerational impacts to create a better future for ourselves and for the future to come. The theme of this conference was “World (of) Encounters: the past, present and future of anthropological knowledge”.
March 2015 - UBC Okanagan - Kelowna, British Columbia
The Canadian Maternity Experiences Survey: What Aboriginal Women Say
I presented my PHD Thesis at UBC Okanagan, at the Conference on Women and Health Initiative held at Harvard School of Population & Public Health in Boston, MA., the European Public Health Conference and the National Gathering of Graduate Students at CIHR’s Institute of Aboriginal Health