Effective teaching is about creating a supportive learning community, transforming our understanding and planting the seeds that will continue to grow and flourish.
Expertise
Indigenous Peoples Health & Wellness
Indigenous Maternal-Child & Reproductive Health
Population & Public Health: Epidemiology
Social Determinants of Health & Wellness
Maternal-Child & Reproductive Health
Indigenous Maternity Experiences
Medical Anthropology & Ethno-obstetrics/ Ethno-Medicine
Socio-Cultural Anthropology: Ethnographic Research
Health & Gender: Gender Based Analysis (GBA+)
Indigenous Feminist Perspectives
Community Based Participatory Action Research & Appreciative Inquiry
Interdisciplinary Research Methods & Theoretical Constructs
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge Systems
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Saulteaux-Anishinaabemowiin Language, Epistemologies, Oral Literature
Decolonizing institutions & Research
Storytelling as research method
Knowledge Translation (KT) in health research
Land-based cultural practices
Indigenous Land Based Arts
Teaching Philosophy
Community
Growth
Transformation
Support
Balance: Gwayooshgawin
Relationship & Reconciliation
How I Teach
Working With Students
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Graduate Students Supervised
I mentor graduate students in their course work, through projects in community, and in their applications for grants and awards. I teach graduate students Indigenous and decolonized methodologies in community-based research.
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Graduate Student Committees
I was part of a committee responsible for supporting these students as they conducted their research and prepared to defend it.
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External Examiner
I sat as an expert as these students defended their research.
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Summer students
These students were employed to conduct research.
Education for Reconciliation
I have created experiential learning curriculum to put reconciliation into practice for universities; health networks; advisory committees; workplace teams; First Nation community schools; as well as seminars and conferences for health professionals and administrators.
In my Reconcili-Action Planning workshop I walk participants through an experiential learning exercise aimed at enhancing intercultural capacity, understanding, empathy and respect for the immediate and inter-/trans-generational impacts on Indigenous peoples’ health.
I also deliver workshops for Councils, Communities and Schools to help build capacity for community-based delivery of health services. Some of these have included:
- What is Injury Prevention and Surveillance?
- Injury Surveillance and Population/Public Health training.
- Meenunyaaka: Anishinaabek Spirit Paint.
- Supporting Two-Spirited Transgender Children, Youth and Families
- Data analysis for monitoring health-related statistical trends